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[Darin Sunley]

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.

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 2:51 PM Darin Sunley <dsunley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Questions of philosophical identity are all fun and games until they
> slam into property rights at relativistic speed.
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 2:47 PM Darin Sunley <dsunley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 2:44 PM Darin Sunley <dsunley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The concept is very simple. I don't want that "me" changing the locks on
>>> "my" house.
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 2:40 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <
>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 4:22 PM Ben via extropy-chat <
>>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *> I can't really get my head around this concept that an identical
>>>>> copy (agood-enough copy, really) of you isn't really 'you'.*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> John K Clark
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