[extropy-chat] Probability of identity - solution?

[John K Clark]

Heartland, High Priest of the Unique Atom and Sacred Original Cult Wrote:

> So yes, there exists an objectively correct (no quotes) way to determine
> whether person A is/isn't person B.

Yes, assuming God is the one doing the observing, but then God is a bit of a
bore. Astronomically more important than objectivity is subjectivity, if you
think feel and have person B memories then you are person B. And if God
disagrees then God can stick it where the sun don't shine.

> the reason why a duplicate isn't the original is because the duplicate
> doesn't extend the original's ability to access reality after original is
> dead.

Translation: The copy isn't the original because he isn't the original and
he isn't the original because he's not the original. That is to say, the
copy doesn't have those same sacred atoms that Heartland can distinguish
from all other atoms in the observable universe but that the scientific
method can not.

   John K Clark