X-Message-Number: 14765
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 12:11:20 -0500
From: david pizer <>
Subject: One thing in two places, at once?

Lee Corbin said:

>Again the subject of "location" has come up in the identity discussion.

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>Never mind that no one before in the history of thought ever supposed that
>location has anything to do with personal identity.

Location has someting  to do with identity.  No *one* thing can be in two
places at the exact same time in this universe that I know of yet.  Yet,
that seems to be what the "Memory is ALL that counts" people are saying.

Claiming that two people with identical memory and two different devices to
each feel that memory clearly says: "there is one memory and two different
feeling devices."  To use the concept "having identical memory in two
different people's brains makes them one person" as a premise seems, to me,
to be begging the question, since that is the conclusion we are debating.  

No one, that I understand, who is a "Memory AND continuer, or self-circuit,
or place in brain that feels the memory, or unique, self-aware continuing
process" person is denying that having memory may be a part of the overall
definition of what a self is.  What I am doubting is that memory *ALONE* is
the total sum of a self. 

Having said all this, it may be the case that there is just not enough
evidence developed yet to prove this either way and we will have to wait
until more evidence comes along.  If this is true, then no one can argue
with my conclusion that for the time being, the best choice is to save
everything you can.

Dave Pizer

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