On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > The question is do you agree with it, or not. So that we can move to step > 4. >
I've lost track, is step 3 the trivial observation that sometimes we don't know what we're going to do, or was that step 2? > You ignore that we can test inequalities, even without probability. I do > produce the description of the devices so that we can test the hypotheses. > Then tell me of an experiment that a scientist can perform in a lab where if X>Y then your theory is wrong but if Y> X then your theory is probably right, where X and Y are objectively measurable quantities of some sort; just tell me what X and Y are. > but this does not mean that we cannot attach one mind to two different > machines, > Yes provided the machines were identical, or at least functionally identical. > or to two identical (similar at the subst. level) machine put in > different environment, > If they were in different environments then the machines would not be identical or even functionally identical and their associated minds would be different because they would have different memories. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
