From: Dickey, Michael F (michael_f_dickey@groton.pfizer.com)
Date: Fri Dec 14 2001 - 07:54:01 MST
From: Clint O'Dell [mailto:clint@freethoughtradio.com]
(This message did not appear to go through, sorry if it ends up going
through twice... - Michael)
"Say you walk into a store that makes perfect copies of people. You know
before hand you are going to copy yourself. You remember being put to sleep
for the process. As a joke, while the two beings with identical memories,
etc. are sleeping the doctors decide to put you both in a human shuffling
machine where when each person came out nobody knew who was who.
Now both beings wake up. Which one is you?"
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Making it impossible to tell which one was the original does not negate the
fact that *one* of them _was_ the original, and thus experienced subjective
continuity...
Michael
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