<div dir="ltr">If your theory of identity can't be used to derive a workable set of property rights laws, it's not much good for anything. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 2:51 PM Darin Sunley <<a href="mailto:dsunley@gmail.com">dsunley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Questions of philosophical identity are all fun and games until they slam into property rights at relativistic speed.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 2:47 PM Darin Sunley <<a href="mailto:dsunley@gmail.com" target="_blank">dsunley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Put another way, there is a deeply meaningful difference between "me" and "a copy of me". We have strongly differing preferences as to whose key opens the locks to my house, and whose bank account "my" employer deposits "my" paycheque into.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 2:44 PM Darin Sunley <<a href="mailto:dsunley@gmail.com" target="_blank">dsunley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">The concept is very simple. I don't want that "me" changing the locks on "my" house.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 2:40 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 4:22 PM Ben via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span> can't really get my head around this concept that an identical copy (a<br>good-enough copy, really) of you isn't really 'you'.</i></blockquote><font size="4"><br><span class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font></span>I don't understand that either. It would be like saying Homer didn't write the iliad and the Odyssey, it was really written by another blind poet from Ionia who also lived in the eighth century BC and happen to have the same name.</font><br>
</div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> John K Clark</span><br></font></div></div>
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