Well,
certainly, if you have such a document, just have it.
You may have
even several documents certifying several your
identities. Yes. Why
not? There are people who maintain that “I” consists
of many
persons – well, of several persons, it doesn't matter
if the number does or does not matter – and each of
these smaller
“I”s (let me write “i” to make things easier and more
clear)
should have its (or i's) own document. This is
very interesting
concept. “i”s can have either a diachronic aspect
(i-past,
i-present, i-future...) or a synchronic or a
synchronic-space aspect (i-internal,
i-external, i-as-i-seem-to-be, i-social, i-familial,
i-individual...) The
phenomenon of bilocation or staying simultaneously in
two places,
even quite distant, seems nothing special or
extraordinary when
analysed and seen from this perspective. We could even
discuss the
phenomenon of multilocation. However both phenomena
would demand of
“i”s a significant autonomy enabling them to act
separately and
independently. It is not so sure whether the autonomy of
such range
might be possible. Could the cube's faces and the cube
be separated
without annihilating the cube itself? There
are quite a lot of people who think, who are
convinced, they have
been transformed and now they are someone else than
they were before,
so any document issued before the transformation
certifies the
identity of someone else and that is why there is a
need to have a
new document issued after the transformation. Surely,
there are
various kinds of transformations, some of them are
complete and
total, while the others are but partial and then
somebody transformed
partially is somebody else only partially and
partially the same as
was before. Well, but is a complete and total
transformation
possible? A butterfly is something really different than
a
caterpillar, however both are made of the same material.
It looks
like making a table from an old cupboard – you are
sitting at the
table without even the slightest idea it might be a
cupboard in the
past while the planks and boards are exactly the same. Not all
transformations are abrupt, sudden, unexpected (or
expected),
violent, spectacular. We keep transforming ourselves
all the time.
Slowly and steadily. Well, in fact every day we wake
up as somebody
else than the one who went to bed, however the
difference is
unnoticeable (or almost unnoticeable – or sometimes
it's noticeable
easily provided that we still preserved the ability to
notice
anything). Although it is very very difficult to
distinguish
yesterday-me from today-me, it is not that hard to
distinguish
last-year-me from last-week-me ..... Although it is so
easy to
distinguish remote-past-me from present-me, it's
really a problem to
recognize remote-past-me as present-me, as myself. I'm
afraid we
usually pretend we recognize ourselves while in fact
we are deeply
astonished and upset and confused when somebody is
trying to convince
us the strange looking guy in the picture is identical
with the not
strange looking guy holding the picture. We are
pondering how we
could do things so bizarre – undoubtedly we wouldn't
do such things
now. Let's think about some legislative and
forensic consequences. For example: a
lawyer could maintain, quite legitimately and with good
reasons, that
the one who committed the crime is somebody else than
(not identical
with) the one in the dock. For example: if someone wrote
the last
will ten years before his death the one indicated as a
heir to his
wealth does not exist now – the one who exists now and
who maintains
that he is the one indicated as a heir to this wealth
can be so
different than the one mentioned in the last will (for
example: he
could experienced a great transformation...) that most
probably the
deceased would have never bequeathed him his treasure,
not even a
tiny part of it. The examples can be multiplied almost
endlessly, but
I think everybody can do this himself or herself or
itself, certainly if he or she or it finds such examples
amusing – more
likely they will be quite gloomy and giving no fun, so
it will be
just a waste of time. The time spared in that way could
be used for
solving another dilemma: can a butterfly be charged with
caterpillar's deeds? The
conclusion is that one should have not one
document but a big suitcase of documents. A trunk of
scraps. Shelves
of sheets. Should bring here whole huge library. Files
and archives
exploding with certificates, application forms,
contracts and
diplomas. Caravans meandering endlessly. Columns of
carriers winding
and winding and winding up to the horizon..... These
documents will
need authentications – certificates certifying that
the
certifications are genuine. However these certificates
will also need
authentication. We need to be vigilant – a forgery can
happen
everywhere and at any time..... Well, but if someone
was disgusted
with endless gathering piles of useless scraps, one
could produce those
needed and necessary documents and certificates by
oneself. Such
documents and certificates will be genuine with no
doubt and no
forgery could happen. Such documents and certificates
would tell
quite a lot about the state of mind of their producer.
A handmade
passport would be with no doubt more interesting than
a passport
printed in millions of copies and distinguishable form
all other
copies only with a photo – but this is sort of truth
in the case of
us: we are not so distinguishable from each other as
we think and
expect ...... Anyway, please do not expect either,
there's any
downloadable template
here. You are not that lazy if you have reached this
very place.