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01-26-2006, 04:09 AM

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Originally Posted by michellemfry
I want to discuss if twin and parallel have the same effect in the thought experiment. To be parallel to something, one can go on forever, function as is, and never know the other, never cross paths, never know anything in common.

To be a twin is to be potentially parallel, is it not?

It isn't, but in the twin earth thought experiment it is. Twins can do different things, wiles in my experiment they always do exactly the same, when one jumps the other jumps int he same place, way.... The only difference between the worlds is that water means to different substances, although the occupation of these is the same and ha the same appearance to our perceptions.
  
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