Re: David Gerrold - War with the Cthorr

Sea Wasp wrote:

Default User wrote:

How did you both die and not die? If there's only one you, then why
would it matter?

In your hypothetical, there are TWO mes.

What does that even mean? Seriously.

If, as I've been saying, there's me and some other guy who has the
same DNA and a copy of my memories, then it matters very much to me
(and to him). We are the NOT the same. We are two separate and
distinct individuals that happen to be a lot alike, especially at
the very beginning.

NO, they're both ME. Me1 and Me2 are identically me. You're shooting
me, whichever of me you shoot.

I just don't believe or even understand how that could possibly be the
case. Unless the bodies share a consciousness, those must be two
separate people. They can't be the same person.

In fact, time travel provides a counterargument.

Let's not drag an impossibility into an already highly unlikely
scenario.





Brian
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