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xod: > I think that we have to look at Mr. Bird the same way we look at Mr. Nick > Nicholas: Does Mr. Nick wear diapers and suck on a pacifier? Yes, > sometimes he does. Usually he doesn't. Individu-izing Mr. Nick into a > collection of Nicks, one for each day or month, we see that only the baby > Nicks wear the diapers. When coagulated into a Mr. Nick, though, we > consider all the Nicks as a single entity, who is all the avatars > simultaneously Exactly so. > So Mr. Bird usually flies (when he looks like an Eagle) but sometimes he > can't (when looking like a penguin). The contradiction lies in our > (reasonable?) difficulty in really seeing all birds as a single Mister Yes. > This Mister stuff seems pretty useless to me, but that's exactly why we > need it! I'm glad you think this, because I have for some months been saying that this is your real opinion even if you hadn't yet realized it! > I think that loi cipni has a billion wings, but Mr. Bird only has 2 Me too. So even though Nick is frustrated by the disagreement, there's also a lot of agreement going on. --And.