From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Thu Jun 13 2002 - 09:45:38 MDT
"Louis Newstrom" <louisnews@comcast.net> Wrote:
>The fact that there are two bodies suffering, is worse
>than one body suffering.
Bodies don't suffer, minds do and mind is not a thing it is an adjective, it
is the way atoms react when they are organized in certain complex ways.
Thus it makes no sense to differentiate minds due to their position in space
because there is no reason in theory they should even have a unique one.
> It seems that you are somehow counting the two bodies as
>"one" because they are "identical".
If you don't like the word "one" try "exchangeable", you could swap the two
and nobody could tell the difference, not objectively and not subjectively.
In fact the two could be spontaneously exchanging identities a billion times
a second and yet nothing would change, if that doesn't prove that neither is
indispensable I don't know what would.
>Any computer programmer can tell you that two runs of the
>same thread on a computer instead of one IS different,
>and IS significant!
And he'd tell you that two identical programs working on identical data is
pointless, unless perhaps you just want to see how hot your CPU can get.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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