From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Oct 29 2002 - 09:08:38 MST
Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Max M wrote:
> > One-egged twins are the same in the beginning of their life.
>
> No. They are not the same. They are similiar, and diverging.
I think Max meant that they are the same when they exist as a single zygote,
before the split and divergence.
It seems to me that development of identical twins is a very handy analogy
for thinking about the development of bifurcated adults. In both cases they
start as one and diverge into two distinct entities at the bifurcation. In
both cases, neither of the bifurcated versions can rightly consider himself
to be the other.
> Two instances of an upload cease being identical at bifurcation.
Yes, and people who are not identical certainly cannot have the same
identity. I wonder why some people find this so hard to swallow.
-gts
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