From: gts (gts@optexinc.com)
Date: Tue Oct 29 2002 - 08:35:10 MST
Lee Corbin wrote:
> gts wrote:
> > Your false reasoning has lead you to promulgate the ridiculous
conclusion
> > that in the scenarios you describe, SELF = OTHER. That conclusion is
clearly
> > false by any sane and workable definitions of the words "self" and
"other."
>
> Well, what is at stake is the evolutionarily new situation
> of hypothetical duplicating machinery, applied to soulless
> entities made up of atoms, a concept also that we are not
> prepared for.
What is at stake here is the validity of rational thought as a means of
comprehending reality.
Your argument attempts to equate two mutually exclusive concepts ("self" and
"other"). No rational argument can justify such a contradiction in terms,
which means we need either 1) consider discarding the two terms as having no
meaning in the transhuman future (which leaves us essentially speechless in
matters pertaining to our relationships to people and objects in the world)
or 2) consider the possibility that perhaps your argument is not quite as
rational as you seem to think.
-gts
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