Say that you have been captured by the [totalitarian fiend of your choice], and are tied up in a basement somewhere. The torture has begun, and is has become clear that it will continue to get worse until you 'become one of them'.
Fortunately you have been supplied by your team with a 'Chalmers' device, which allows you to know exactly what to say and do to convince your captors that you have turned and become 'one of them' in earnest. Using real-time em field sensitivity and quantum computing, the computational states are not only analyzed, but predicted for everyone in the room so that you are furnished with the best lines and gestures, sobbing, explaining, etc. The Chalmers device allows you to be a flawless actor. Is there any reason that this wouldn't work in theory? What law says that acting can only be so good, and beyond that you actually have to 'love Big Brother' in order to seem like you do? If we had a device that would allow us to control our bodies, emotions, and minds precisely and absolutely, why couldn't we use that device as a mask? Part II Instead of replacing parts of the brain with perfect functional replicas, what if we used a hot wire to ablate or burn parts of the brain. If I burn one region, you lose the power of speech. If I burn another, you lose all understanding of physics and math. If I burn another, you go into a coma. I can do different combinations of ablation on different subjects, but would there be any case in which someone who was dead could be induced to speak or solve math problems? Why not? I could replace the motherboard of a burned out computer with any other compatible motherboard and expect to pick up right where I left off. If I toasted a critical part of any computer, there is no loss of potential functionality to any of the other parts, whether that part is implicated in the boot up process or not. Just because a computer won't boot doesn't mean that it can't be easily repaired. Not so with a living organism. If you blow out a simple power supply in a biological system, it will never run again - not even a little bit. What say ye? Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/5a_qcknwY8cJ. 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.
