[extropy-chat] Let's try this again.

[Samantha Atkins]

On May 8, 2006, at 6:59 AM, A B wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> John wrote:
> "Young? The idea that matter uniquely determines what we are is as  
> old as the
> hills, but discoveries in science made about 90 years ago proves  
> this can
> not possibly be true."...
>
> When I wrote "young", I was referring to this particular (new)  
> conclusion which is a mere few weeks old, as far as I can tell. I  
> doubt any philosopher from the past has stood before his peers and  
> claimed with a straight face: "Though I appear to you to be alive,  
> I actually died yesterday."
>
> John,
> "...the idea that the you of
> yesterday could be dead and you didn't even know it would have been  
> crazy."
>
> I've always acknowledged that the idea sounds "crazy". But that  
> alone is not solid grounds for dismissing it altogether.


In absence of a convincing argument, which certainly has not been  
provided, we have quite sufficient grounds for dismissing these  
assertions as nonsense.  Can we move on to something productive now?

- samantha