• FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sort of begs the question by assuming there should be one “real you”. Why is this a restriction? Why not two real yous?

    You an hour from now is every bit you as the you that exists 2 hours from now. They’re not identical, but both exist, same space just at different points in time. So why not two “yous”, not identical, at the same time just at different points in space?

    • Derproid@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Because there being two real yous doesn’t make sense. Like you can have two identical things but they can not be the same thing, there must be a you #1 and a you #2. Like if I have two water bottles, they are two identical things but they are not the same thing. Changing one of them does not affect the other, thus they are not the same thing.