<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 4:54 PM Ben via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><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">On 17/05/2020 21:23, Darin Sunley wrote:<br></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> Put another way, there is a deeply meaningful difference between "me"<br>
> and "a copy of me". We have strongly differing preferences as to whose<br>
> key opens the locks to my house, and whose bank account "my" employer<br>
> deposits "my" paycheque into.</blockquote>
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<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>You are simply talking about two versions of 'me'. 'Me1' and 'Me2'. In a <br>
situation where there are two of you, and only one set of belongings, of <br>
course there would be a conflict. This has nothing to do with the <br>
argument about whether a 'copy of you' is 'you' or not.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">You and an exact copy of you are facing each other an equal distance from the center of a symmetrical room. I have a switch and tell you that when I throw it you will instantly exchange positions. When I do you would notice no difference, you could not even determine if I was telling the truth; the switch might have been connected to nothing, or maybe not, but either way it makes no difference to you#1 or to you#2. And if it makes no difference it would be pointless to pretend that there are 2 different yous.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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