Re: Is a Person One or Many?

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@rawbw.com)
Date: Sat Mar 08 2008 - 10:49:35 MST


Stathis writes

> It is an objective fact that tomorrow someone will wake up in my bed
> who thinks he is me, but it is *not* an objective fact that this person is,
> indeed, me.

What are the necessary and sufficient conditions for him to be
you, that is, for the collection of molecules we find in your bed
tomorrow to be you? And by that I mean exactly: under what
transformations do you survive?

Lee



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