Re: [projectvrm] Principles, personalities, anonymity and identity

["Joe Andrieu" < >]

Right. We are constantly dealing with a plethora of contexts. Meeting
you at the mall /yesterday/ is a somewhat different context than meeting
you at the mall /tomorrow/. Especially if, say, the mall is the
Washington Mall and today is 9/11/2001.

-j

On Tuesday, September 27, 2011 2:52 PM, "Johannes Ernst"
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 wrote:
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> On Sep 26, 2011, at 19:08, Joe Andrieu wrote:
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> > On Monday, September 26, 2011 6:55 PM, "Johannes Ernst"
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> >  wrote:
> >> On Sep 26, 2011, at 18:34, Joe Andrieu wrote:
> >>> I think there's a core misconception here about identity.  This may or 
> >>> may not be semantics, but it's worth pointing out.
> >>> 
> >>> Identity is the correlation of an entity across different contexts.
> >> 
> >> I wouldn't necessarily agree with that. Below you say that identity is
> >> about recognition. That I can agree with.
> > 
> > 
> > I'm not sure I follow the distinction. Isn't recognizing someone the
> > same thing as correlating the person you perceive now as the person you
> > saw before?
> 
> Yes it is. But I'm reading more into "across different contexts" than you
> seem to … (e.g. Facebook recognizing me at some random third-party
> website) you apparently just meant that you will recognize me if we meet
> at the mall.
> 
> > 
> > -j
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