<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 Tue, May 26, 2020 at 3:51 PM Adrian Tymes 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><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>Personally, I would regard them starting out as the same person, but immediately becoming two distinct people who used to be the same person.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>"You" is timeline-dependent. The "you" of tomorrow is not the "you" of today, and neither are the "you" of yesterday.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">I agree with all of that. And the "you" of yesterday could be said to have survived for another day if today there is something that remembers being the "you" of yesterday, and the name of that thing is the "you" of today. So far there has only been one thing like that on any given day that meets that definition, but that's only because of technological limitations and need not always be true. That's why I think the English language is going to need major modifications in the way it treats personal pronouns if it's going to remain being useful.</font></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 dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><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"><br>
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