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

[A B]

Hi Samantha,
   
  It is equally inappropriate to claim that the idea is "nonsense", unless you have relevant evidence or a counter-argument. However, I agree that there are more pressing matters at this time.
   
  Best Wishes,
   
  Jeffrey Herrlich

Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
  
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

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