anon13 comments on Can You Prove Two Particles Are Identical? - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 April 2008 07:06AM

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Comment author: anon13 14 April 2008 07:08:33PM 0 points [-]

So can the same be said for two atoms whose constituent particles are indistinguishable from each other, and then molecules made up of said atoms, etc.? In other words, could one follow this chain until you had two rocks which you would assert were the same object, even though you held one in each hand?