What if identity is just the external markers of identity?
Imagine a Turing Test, but not to duplicate intelligence generally but a particular intelligence.
Same pattern of thoughts. Same pattern of speech.
Even people who know the subject well cannot tell which is which.
Then how is the subject himself?
We think we have something inside that makes us us.
But how is that known? Only by externals. How does anyone know us to be who we are? Only externals.
Make a perfect photocopy. Then it gets shuffled. How can you say which is the original and which is the copy?
Now I am pondering. Further imagine to both you give different names. Indisinguishable except for names.
Label one Terx. Label one Grey.
Now are they disinct identities? Only difference is the label. Only reason you gave the label to was distinguish. Is that difference in identity or only difference in label?
And yet . . . And yet . . . Each thing must be its own thing. Since there are two to give the labels Terx and Grey, there are two. And if there are two, there must be a difference. That is the only way to have two. But . . . follow me here, the labels, the only things making them two, are still externals god dame it. Nothing inside that makes them different.
