Re: on formally indescribable merde

From: James Higgo <j.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 22:07:31 -0000

Scott: that was clearly ill-thought-out. Of course difference does not imply
time, and of course this e-mail is not proof that there is a 'person' called
James...
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott D. Yelich <scott.domain.name.hidden>
To: James Higgo <j.domain.name.hidden>
Cc: Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>; <everything-list.domain.name.hidden.com>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 3:25 AM
Subject: Re: on formally indescribable merde


> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, James Higgo wrote:
> > Of course, 'your' current OM, which includes reading this email, is
> > unrelated to 'my current' OM. But since all OMs exist I can be sure that
> > there will be an OM which includs 'I am Bruno and I am reading this
merde'.
>
> You are James.
> Bruno is Bruno.
>
> Why is James locked into the James OMs and Bruno locked into the Bruno
> OMs?
>
> Why don't James OMs become Bruno OMs?
>
> You can say they do, somewhere... but that somewhere is not here. That
> somewhere is the same somewhere where James will try to explain to me
> why time doesn't exist -- but that somewhere is not here, therefore,
> doesn't that provide for a definition of "I" ?
>
> James -- can there be difference without time? What I mean
> is, as soon as there is difference, doesn't that demand
> that time exist as well?
>
> Scott
>
>
>
Received on Mon Mar 12 2001 - 15:12:38 PST