# I Gotta Split. Paradox?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 22, 2005, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-split-paradox/327391 "2005-10-22T04:09:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-split-paradox/327391/154 "2005-11-02T14:36:35Z")

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> [@TibbyCat](#):
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> You are asked which one you want to come out of the room: “socks”, 1,2 or 3? Which one do you choose, and why? … just answer the question even if it is, in your mind, irrelevent.

1, with the other three killed, so that I have £1M and no socially inconvenient identical twins running around. Because the **configuration** is important, not the particular _atoms_ which change over the years anyway.

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> The reason this is taking 10X longer than it should is because I answer your questions directly and you answer mine indirectly.

As I have asked directly, what happens at the lung surface and wha is the difference between living and dead tissue given that the atoms in both remain the same ones?

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