From: gts (gts@optexinc.com)
Date: Tue Oct 22 2002 - 20:28:38 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
> gts wrote:
>> For that matter, there is no important difference in my
>> mind between an xox and an identical twin sibling. Fortunately
>> identical twins have enough sense to know they are not the
>> same person in two places at one time.
> Well, they're *really* not the same person, you know! ;-)
> Parents and close friends readily sense the difference.
> But no one would sense the difference between you and
> your duplicate.
Here you have ignored the differences in the experiences of the two
individuals being compared.
As you'll agree, it is true that:
1) The sensed differences between me and my duplicate immediately after
duplication would be small and roughly the same as the sensed
differences between two identical twins immediately after conception.
But you fail to recognize that the following is also true:
2) The sensed differences between me and my duplicate 10 years after
duplication would be large and roughly the same as the sensed
differences between two identical twins at age 10.
If you recognize 2) as true then you'll understand that the comparative
differences between dupes and originals is for all practical purposes no
different from the comparative differences between identical siblings.
You imagine a distinction between dupes and twins that does not exist,
(apparently because you have a vested interest in supporting your
nonsensical theory that one person can exist in two places
simultaneously).
-gts
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