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crocodile deathroll · 12-16-2002, 03:34 PM

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Originally posted by Oxymoron:
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Personally, I really like the information-is-everything idea. But it's just that - it's everything, not just us; so it explains nothing, least of all how something undetectable directly or indirectly can said to "exist" in whatever sense of the word we choose.</strong>

Yes and if you slipped into a mincer minutes five earlier and reduced to minced meat then you would still have all the same matter you had five minutes ago, but it would no longer be you. But the person you were when you were a 2 year old was you in spite of the fact you were composed of completely different atoms.

So I am more of the view the integrity of the self lies in the configuration of matter and not the matter itself.

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idiom · 12-17-2002, 02:09 AM

The difference being the information present.

Information has no mass either.

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idiom Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: New Zealand Posts: 49	The difference being the information present. Information has no mass either.

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