[ExI] The atoms red herring. =|
Alan Grimes
agrimes at speakeasy.net
Tue Nov 16 22:07:39 UTC 2010
> Excellent.
>
> So you agree that it's completely irrelevant which set of atoms is doing
> the information processing that comprises a person's identity.
>
>>From which it follows that wherever that same information processing
> is being done, that same identity exists.
Utterly false.
You are using an argument based on science/compsci, which I have already
argued, is mute on metaphysical issues such as identity.
Stop pretending that the tools, techniques, and assumptions, we use to
describe and manipulate strings of letters on a piece of paper mean
anything whatsoever in the context of yourself.
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