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Old 03-30-2008, 07:03 PM   #7 (permalink)
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These things, however, don't have intrinsic identity. They are composed entirely of things that are "not it"... They only have identity due to the organization of their components and how they interact with our perception of the world they reside in.
Yes, but I would argue that this is no different than any other form of matter which we are only able to observe because of a large structure of components: the structure of atoms. Atoms do not have any intrinsic identity either.
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