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>From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech,comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: A rock implements every FSA
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Date: 8 Apr 92 07:58:38 GMT
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In article <1992Apr2.012749.10596@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
>In article <60507@aurs01.UUCP> throop@aurs01.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes:
>>Exactly so.  And the requirement not to depend upon time is very modest
>>indeed, yet seems to kill Putnam's line of reasoning quite dead.
>
>  Start by individuating a
>material object that persists through time.  Keep in mind the "ship of
>Theseus" problem of loss and replacement of its material constituents.

Is the chair you sit in the same object as yesterday? Is the planet you
walk on the same object as yesterday? Indeed, is your own body the same
object as it was yesterday?

Although these questions may be theoretically challenging, they don't seem
to cause us any trouble in every-day life or in physical sciences. Why
should we make them into any more of a problem in the case of implementing
FSAs?

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