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I supose it was inevitable that this thread become yet another on the topic of reincarnation. My appologies, .

And yet the vast mass of humanity have no such recollection. And what it means for an experience to be reincarnated is obscure. Are you the experience...

It's tempting to treat this as a curious piece of biography, and leave it. But. Your suggestion is that it is memory that is reincarnated; @"Baker" sa...

A zombie thread. Better to keep a few rather than rely on one. Flew's is brief and comprehensive, and remains at hand. The Oxford (Blackburn) is simil...

I've been unable to see any such advocation. Perhaps if you were to set it out more explicitly, I'd be able to follow. But especially in virtue of ado...

If Wittgenstein draws a picture of such a thing, it is only to reject it - no? I would hope that such august folk would reject the idea of some privat...

Nice. Would that I could have been there. As it stands I am having trouble tracking the various threads through the paper, especially given my only pa...

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Taboo? Seems not.

Yes. Sure, we're reincarnated; the bits that make up one's body once made up another body. Dig dead people into the compost, use the result to grow ca...

There's a few problems, such as - How is it that old you is the same as young you - directly contradicting Leibniz’ Law Chrysippus’ Paradox 101 Dalmat...

Interestingly, adopting relative identity might offer some solace to and . If identity is indeed context dependent then the hurdle is lowered for the ...

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My apologies.

Sure. All that by way of saying, folk can make stuff up?

I supose a bit more detail might not hurt. What Aristotle thought is of some historical interest, but certainly no longer authoritative - I hope. One ...

So what.

, , So the topic becomes that of individuation - what is it that makes something this and not that? The question applies more broadly than to self, so...

I don't know what your point is. But "logical impossibility" is a term used by philosophers and logicians, with a clear meaning.

Yep. Similarly, what reason would we have to think that 's disembodied consciousness was Art, and not some parasitic spirit that digests Art's experie...

Sure, good reply. What I'm getting at is similar to the difference between watching a documentary and being a part of that documentary. I think that a...

How odd. Then it doesn't seem to do what wants.

There's a conceptual flaw in all this speculation. Supose you were to go back and become yourself at some earlier point in your life, returning to an ...

Yeah, it is. (p & ~p). Contradiction. Tell that to an electron in a double-slit experiment.

I'm sure you do.

It's an inveterate issue in Psychoceramics.

Yeah, OK. No progress to be made here. Publish your article and then invite me to the ceremony when you win the Turing Award so you can say "I told yo...

Yep. Quite agree. If your conclusion is a logical impossibility, there is something amiss with your assumptions. Or with your process.

We've already agreed that a reductio argument uses a logical impossibility to show that an assumption is in error; and that Turing's argument is a red...

:rofl: If you would prove Turing wrong, you will need more than mere assertion.

:wink: You don't have to be here. No need to respond if my comments are not useful. Or is it that what you have to say cannot be made sufficiently cle...

What you have done is to display the contradiction that we all agree on. It's what you conclude from that which is problematic.

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I wouldn't be here apart from trying to help articulate the point. That's why I've asked you to show as explicitly as you can where Carol's question o...

Repetition and appeal to (supposed) authority.

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On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies? He talks about empty space. No mention of void in this English translation. I'm not saying you are mistaken, ...

Philosophy as physics without the maths.

Oh. I wonder if you had general relativity in mind. I supose one might argue that the void disappeared when Newton introduced action at a distance. Af...

Survival only ever takes place within a context. What is fit, is what fits into it's environment. Cooperation, not competition, is paramount. Not surv...

How?

Curious, but a shame it's so obscure. Nothing as a subtype of all types.

, Perhaps we can deal with "nothign" in a similar way, by asking what it is that there is nothing of... He has nothing in the bank; I've nothing in my...

@"sime"?

Well, no. The correct thing to do is conclude that H is impossible; that there are things which cannot be computed.

ah, marking territory. Ok.

...and the trouble with that is that there doesn't seem to be any obvious problem with Z. So the problem must be H.

Trouble is, when they get to the bit were they get cancer, smokers suddenly develop an inability to follow through on their choice, preferring all the...

And, again, where does such a question occur in the example? Seems to me to be in Z; the contradiction that is used to deny the assumption. But I don'...