From: Randall Randall (wolfkin@phonetech.com)
Date: Sun Nov 22 1998 - 23:34:58 MST
John Clark wrote:
> <daniel.fabulich@yale.edu> wrote::
>
> >The difference between two objects and one object IS discernable,
>
> Yes, but the difference between two objects and two examples of the same object
> is not discernable so I don't care which is really true.
An example *is* an object. You can only have more than one example (or object)
of a kind or sort of object, not of the object itself. This is true even of
atoms; you may have more than one copper atom, but they are not the *same*
atom, *because* you have more than one.`
> First of all I don't have consciousness I am consciousness. Emotions,
> sensations, and thoughts are the part of me I value, not protoplasm. Second,
> things are made of atoms and atoms have no individuality, if they can't even
> give this interesting property to themselves how can they give it to me?
In the same way that they can give greenness, or consciousness,
though atoms have neither property themselves.
> >If I've got two green cubes, and smash one, what happens
> >to the second cube's greenness?
>
> If I have two printers printing out the same novel and I smash one is the book
> destroyed ?
Well, the one you stopped certainly is.
> If I have two phonographs playing the same symphony and I smash
> one machine what happens to the music?
There certainly is *less* music than before, no?
Wolfkin.
wolfkin@phonetech.com
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