Vela wrote:GooberTheHat wrote:I suppose it could be argued that you are no longer you, but a replica of the original. That might have repercussions if someone is religious.
The ways I like looking at the problem are this:
1. All particles in our body have a wavefunction which has essentially collapsed where we are. Each particle has the possibility of being anywhere else in the universe at any given moment. If you are just re-collapsing the wavefunction, you are the same person after being teleported.
However
2. Since say, this time 10 years ago, through biological processes, almost every atom in your body has been replaced. You literally are not the same person you were then. So even though you feel like the same person, almost no atoms from back then still make up part of you.
In this sense, we are more like a wave than we are like an object. So again, if it's a matter of being teleported, it doesn't even matter if you are made up of different atoms or not, as that has just sped up the process we already undergo, without the aging.
edit: ahh yes, I knew it was an old problem re-worded, but I didnt know the origin.
Is a paradox that has been reconstructed using different themes still the same paradox?
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beano wrote:http://tab.co.uk/2014/06/03/thus-spake-the-su/ Hah. Oh dear.
Facewon wrote:Had that on my watch later since you posted it. Should get on with it. I watched The Perverts Guide to Ideology this weekend. Immensely interesting & entertaining. Slavoj zizek in fine form.
Not quite - the Obey Giant artwork wasn't in the film, the phrase/idea of propaganda with the simple phrase "Obey" comes from the film. Shepard Fairey evolved his "Andre the gain has a posse" work into to the obey giant. And it's Fairey's work with propaganda etc that convinces me that him and Banksy cooked up the whole Exit Through The Giftshop as a lark.mistercrayon wrote:I learnt an interesting thing from that film. You know those ubiquitous OBEY things with a face? well the face is that of Andre the Giant - famous professional wrestler. Now the film it comes from, They Live, the main character of which is Roddy Piper - also a pro wrestler!Facewon wrote:Had that on my watch later since you posted it. Should get on with it. I watched The Perverts Guide to Ideology this weekend. Immensely interesting & entertaining. Slavoj zizek in fine form.
mistercrayon wrote:I learnt an interesting thing from that film. You know those ubiquitous OBEY things with a face? well the face is that of Andre the Giant - famous professional wrestler. Now the film it comes from, They Live, the main character of which is Roddy Piper - also a pro wrestler!Had that on my watch later since you posted it. Should get on with it. I watched The Perverts Guide to Ideology this weekend. Immensely interesting & entertaining. Slavoj zizek in fine form.
djchump wrote:"Go home Utilitarian, you drunk": http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/the-cold-logic-of-drunk-people/381908/
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