From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Wed Oct 23 2002 - 22:07:33 MDT
"Dickey, Michael F" <michael_f_dickey@groton.pfizer.com> Wrote:
>If you claim that they are only one person, then by necessity they should
>share the same sensory input.
Certainly, otherwise they would no longer be identical because they would
have different memories.
>If we were to separate the two bodies we would find they experience
>different sensory input.
Not if they were equally distant from the center of a symmetrical room, then
each would see exactly the same thing the other saw.
> I still find it difficult to understand how people can assert that a copy
>of you is you.
For some reason I don't understand people always look at things from the
point of view of "The Original", but do you have any reason for thinking
that
right now, at this very instant, you are "The Copy" and was made only one
hour ago?
John K Clark jonkc@att.com
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