The whole counterfactual exercise of "Who would I be if I were born 400 years earlier" will make your head hurt if you think about it "I would've been a heretic" I mean, maybe, but you probably wouldn't believe any of the same things you do now, like why would you https://twitter.com/avoiding_bears/status/1218138545212264449 …
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It's a whole philosophical problem "If I were Donald Trump's son I wouldn't be like that" But if you were Donald Trump's son you would... be Donald Trump's son
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Charlie Stross said that if he was born hundreds of years ago his medical problems would have killed him in childhood. OK, but if he's imagining being born in the past, is imagining being healthy any more of a leap?
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Hofstadter did a whole thing about the problem of counterfactuals in Gödel, Escher, Bach The guy who said "my grandfather was almost President" "Almost" in the sense he was the captain of the PT 108
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