X-Message-Number: 25582
From: "Valera Retyunin" <>
Subject: To Francois
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 04:43:54 +0300

You wrote:

"From the point of view of Francois A, he wakes up and thinks "great, I'm
still the same Francois, I'm ok, everything worked like I expected, and look
at that, I'm facing the sun." From the point of view of Francois B, he wakes
up and thinks "perfect, everything worked just fine, I'm still good old
Francois just as before, and I'm the one facing the moon." No magic, no
mysticism, no Platonism."

Without magic, mysticism or Platonism, Francois A is *not* Francois, and
Francois B is *not* Francois either. They only think they are Francois. If
Francois dies at the time Francois A and Francois B are created, he is then
only facing pitch-black darkness. That is, he is not facing anything at all.

You wrote:

"Subjectivity is localized where a hunk of matter assembled in a certain way
is localized. If a second hunk of matter assembled in a closely enough
similar way is located somewhere else, there will also be a subjectivity
localized at that other place. It doesn't have to transfer, it's already
there."

What's already there is a new subjectivity, different from the original one.

You wrote:

"Those conditions are sufficient for personal survival through duplication
to be realized."

Only if you consider survival of a different person (albeit very similar to
you) your personal survival. If you do, I just hope you will not join Basie
and Co. in their future campaign to forcibly spread this idea through
lobotomy.

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