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350: Fully Two Selves

Dear Hank & John

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Is There a Gap Between Two Pieces of Paper?

Scientist: You can add nothing to something and have the same amount of something that is now two things instead of one. Give me a lateral example of something that you add nothing to it, and then it's two some things, but they are the combined size of the same previous something. If we're saying that there's a bunch of dust that gets removed from the paper when we cut it, there is now space between not two pieces of paper, but many pieces of paper. Some of the pieces of paper are so small, we cannot see. There's a finite number of individual parts. So in this example with nothing between them. With like air between them now. Right.

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