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Comment author: Scott_Aaronson2 15 April 2008 08:23:17AM 7 points [-]

Scott, I can't imagine any possible overthrow of QM that would resurrect the idea of two electrons having distinct individual identities.

Nor can I! Wise Bayes-Master, I was simply trying to follow your own dictum that an inability to imagine something is a fact about us and not the world.

(For technical reasons set out elsewhere, I have difficulty imagining any theory superseding QM -- so once I'm asked to condition on that happening, there's very little I'm willing to say about what the new theory might entail.)