On 6/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lee Corbin</b> <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com">lcorbin@rawbw.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
For example, I do not think it *possible* for John Grigg<br>as you know and love him (that is, as you know and<br>love yourself) to have been born in any other time!<br>Any fertilized egg that was identitcal to yours of a half
<br>century ago or whenever you were conceived, simply<br>would not have turned out to be *you* if raised, say,<br>during the time of the Roman Empire. It would have<br>spoken a different language, been completely unfamiliar
<br>with our technology, embraced a different religion, and<br>so on to such an extent that it simply would have been<br>a different person.<br></blockquote></div><br>My answer to the Doomsday Argument was along similar lines: it doesn't make sense to say I (as opposed to someone else with my DNA) could have been born in a different century, so the probability under discussion is essentially the probability that I am me; and the probability that X = X is a priori unity.
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