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>From: cash@convex.com (Peter Cash)
Subject: Re: red light / blue light scenario
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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?  What principle are you trying to derive or 
>express?  We might possibly learn something about dealing with situations that
>never arise, but who cares about learning about such things?

Philosophy is (among other things) the study of possibilities; it is the
study of all things that can be conceived of, and it ignores merely
practical difficulties as irrelevant to its aims. Obviously, you have no
philosophical inclinations--you are interested only in immediately useful
knowledge, in knowledge that will fill your stomach and put a roof over
your head. Consequently, the study of philosophy is of no benefit to you
whatever. 

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