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Also the moment all these copies are created their states would start diverging. It would not take long for them to become different people. Tangent: this line
by api 5y ago
Also the moment all these copies are created their states would start diverging. It would not take long for them to become different people.
Tangent: this line of thinking in reflection has led me to become profoundly forgiving. Different paths could have led me to be homeless, in prison, an insufferable bastard, insane, and so on. Other paths may have made me a better person than I am now. Even worse it’s hard to tell what those paths might have been except far in retrospect.
When we judge others harshly we really are being profoundly small minded and provincial.
- nautilius 5y agoSure, but that's not related to the question at hand. I don't think it's controversial that people with different experiences will develop differently, and that twins are, in fact, different people.