From: Dickey, Michael F (michael_f_dickey@groton.pfizer.com)
Date: Thu Oct 31 2002 - 12:48:00 MST
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From: gts [mailto:gts_2000@yahoo.com]
"11) Jack then concludes rightly that Bob1 and Bob2 are not the same
identity after all, even if they are very similar. He realizes it would be
absurd to consider them to have the same non-nominal identity, because when
Bob1 refers to himself as "I" or "me" he is referring to someone who rates
pizza as a 7, and when Bob2 refers to himself as "I" or "me" he is referring
to someone who rates pizza as a 4. Small those this difference may be, it is
nevertheless true that Bob1's and Bob2's
ideas of self have different referents."
GTS, I don't see why, even if bob1 and bob2 both rated pizza as seven, that
is still wouldn't be reasonable to consider them separate. There are *two*
of them after all. Even if two sub atomic particles are identical, there is
still two of them. One on my right, and one on my left. Even if Bob1 and
Bob2 were perfectly identical in every test of personality and makeup, there
are still *two* of them. Simple as that. Even if one were to imagine that
their individual personalities remainined in stasis since forking, thus not
creating more differentiating personalities with time, there is still no
good reason NOT to consider them two seperate people.
Michael
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