Alex, Carl and James question Giacomo Figà Talamanca on his Opinion about cloning and identity, by way of soul GPS, murder machines, and clone infidelity.
And it was Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (not Queen Christina of Sweden) who posed the interaction problem for Descartes. (But Descartes did also have a famous correspondence with Queen Christina, so we will forgive Giacomo.)
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