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>From: brian@norton.com (Brian Yoder)
Subject: Re: red light / blue light scenario
Message-ID: <1992Feb05.215900.1267@norton.com>
Organization: Symantec / Peter Norton
References: <1992Feb04.172741.19301@convex.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1992 21:59:00 GMT

cash@convex.com (Peter Cash) writes:
> In article <6539@pkmab.se> ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson) writes:
> >In article <1992Jan30.012944.5782@norton.com> brian@norton.com (Brian Yoder) writes:
> >>Given that this whole discussion relies on a premise that is false (that 
> >>people can be identically duplicated by fancy machines) what importance does 
> >>whole line of thinking have?
 
> >It might cast some light on the general concept of "identity".
 
> Well yes, I did think that was the point of discussions like this,
> Kristoffer. I presume, however, that Brian finds the question uninteresting
> because it doesn't lead to any practical benefits...

Is there any other kind of benefit besides practical ones?  Perhaps 
impractical ones?

You seem to be suffering from the theory/practice part of the analytic/synthetic
dichotomy.  I say that any impractical theory is a bad theory.  What say you?

--Brian
 
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