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Comment author: Peterdjones 30 April 2011 11:31:36AM -1 points [-]

Do you seriously mean to imply that something identical to chess set is not a chess set?

A duplicate of the Mona Lisa wouldn't be the Mona Lisa.

Comment author: NMJablonski 30 April 2011 02:56:47PM 1 point [-]

Have you read the quantum physics sequence? Are you familiar with the experimental evidence on particle indistinguishability?

Comment author: Peterdjones 30 April 2011 06:03:49PM 1 point [-]

I'm familiar with it anyway. The point is that things like history, prvenance and cultural significance are built into the way we think about things, part of the connotational cloud. That doesn;t contradict QM, but it does schemes to lossllessly reduce meaning to physics.