[ExI] Destructive uploading.

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Mon Sep 5 17:26:26 UTC 2011


2011/9/5 Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>:
> Actually,... no. No matter how you perform the upload, perfect continuity is
> perceived by the upload, by definition (one cannot be anybody but oneself at
> any stage of the process

Nope.  One can perceive a significant shift in who one is during the process,
such that one (and others) perceive a different self afterward.

> Similarly, if one approximates B from A, either B' is different enough from
> B that it can be described as a different result - and graduality is
> irrelevant for this purpose, or is "similar enough", and in such event
> nothing change.

Unless, of course, graduality is the key to whether one ends up with B or B' -
which seems to be the case, based on what hard evidence there is (namely,
similar processes with other things).



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