<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Randall Randall</b> <<a href="mailto:randall@randallsquared.com">randall@randallsquared.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Apr 29, 2007, at 1:14 PM, John K Clark wrote:<br>> What it means is that you got a bunch of atoms to interact in the<br>> same way<br>> as an original group of atoms, and then you changed the<br>> organization of the
<br>> original group of atoms (for example blowing up the original man<br>> with a<br>> stick of dynamite). You claim there has been a HUGE subjective<br>> difference<br>> (even though the person in question can detect no subjective
<br>> difference!),<br><br>Uh... let me point out that the person in question could<br>detect no subjective difference even if you just did the<br>dynamiting part.</blockquote><div><br>That's true. Every night you go to bed, you die, and just as Heartland says it's only a fraud that the guy who wakes up the next morning thinks he is you; the real you is utterly oblivious because he doesn't exist any more. However, this is a fraud that everyone is perfectly happy with. If you blow them up and don't replace them, there is not even the fraudulaent appearance of continuity, and that's a bad thing.
<br><br>Stathis Papaioannou<br></div></div><br>