<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 4, 2017 12:34, "John Clark" <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="quoted-text"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Will Steinberg </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:steinberg.will@gmail.com" target="_blank">steinberg.will@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="quoted-text"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>if a tornado a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away assembled a conformation of matter identical to a copy of a book of the play 'Hamlet' I own, the former conformation would "not be" Hamlet while the copy I have "would be" Hamlet.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Both books are made of atoms, mostly hydrogen carbon and oxygen, and science can not tell the difference between one atom of the same element and another. So if in the middle of the night I exchanged your book with one from a <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">galaxy far far</span> away how could you do what science can not and detect a difference the next morning?</font></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto">Then the book I have becomes Hamlet, and the book I used to have is still Hamlet. As long as it's ever been observed as Hamlet, it retains that meaning.</div></div>