[ExI] Uploading and selfhood

[John K Clark]

Michael Miller wrote:

> Okay. What then is the subject of the adjective 'I'?

Matter. I am the way atoms react when the are organized in a johnkclarkian
way.

> I was asking you to elaborate on what you mean by the word self. I think
> you have still managed to avoid telling us.

You are correct. I refuse to give a definition because I can provide
something far far more important, an example.

> although you are quick to criticise me for a perceived belief in a soul,
> it is yourself that is clinging to some kind of essential self.

Correct again. I have already stated that I believe in the self, so it is
not unreasonable to suppose there is something essential in it, and that
something is information, the closest thing the scientific method can get to
the traditional concept of the soul.

> I dispute that position is irrelevant to our discerning of different
> objects.

Liebniz was saying that if the objects in question are identical you can't
even know their position, maybe it's there but maybe it's that identical
thing over there.

> We all know red, just like 11, and just like I, are commonly used as
> nouns.

And God Damn those idiot third grade English teachers!

 John K Clark