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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: More Atheistic Wishful Thinking
Message-ID: <680@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 20:42:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 21 20:42:00 1985
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References: <1522@umcp-cs.UUCP> <1668@pyuxd.UUCP> <1552@umcp-cs.UUCP> <701@utastro.UUCP> <664@mmintl.UUCP> <739@utastro.UUCP>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
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Summary: what is a self?


[Not food]

In article <739@utastro.UUCP> padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan) writes:
>All of this indicates that the word "identity" is being used in at least
>two different ways here; one as a statement of likeness, and another as 
>a statement of "selfness".

No, what I am dealing with is the perception by the person of identity with
the earlier person, and the perception by those around them that this is
the same person.  What is this mystical concept of "selfness"?  Does it
maybe mean "having the same soul"?

Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108