> the message is not the same as the text. Like people who’s bodies are gone but who’s souls are still here? I see dead messages… :P That distinction might be

> the message is not the same as the text. Like people who’s bodies are gone but who’s souls are still here? I see dead messages… :P That distinction might be worthwhile, and it’s certainly true from a technical standpoint. But the real problem here is the message is not the same as the message. If that was referring to a single message it’d make a great philosophical problem. Unfortunately we’re just talking about a more boring problem of two different messages with two different texts where the text of one of them accidentally referred to the other one as ‘this’.