NihilCredo comments on Open Thread: May 2010 - Less Wrong
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More importantly, the question is terribly phrased - or just terrible. The philosopher could have started with "If you met the 'twins' afterwards, could someone tell them apart without asking anyone?", which has an obvious response of "no", and then gets followed by a actually interesting questions about, for example, what "memory" exactly is.
That version is a lot funnier, though!