On 11/9/2012 2:18 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
2012/11/8 meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> On 11/8/2012 1:14 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote:2012/11/8 meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> On 11/8/2012 1:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:On 07 Nov 2012, at 19:25, meekerdb wrote:On 11/7/2012 7:53 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:How can you be in two places at once ?Your soul, or 1p-you, cannot.A viewpoint implies a certain place, but I don't see that one can only be conscious of one place at a time. Consider the operator in Florida who is operating a drone over Afghanistan. His consciousness is aware of both places at once.OK, and with the TV or the net, in that sense most of us are aware of many places at once, but not in a sense relevant for the 1-indeterminacy question, I think.But I think it could be. If the drone pilot were in a more immersive simulation he might just shift his attention from Afgahnistan to Florida the same as shifting your attention from your desk to your monitor. While his body would have a definite location, his consciousness would not. As you point yourself by using the words "shifting your attention", the conscionsness still has a definite location depending on where the attention of the drone pilot is. He is either focusing on the Afgahnistan environment or Florida, not both, at no moments he feels to be at two places at once (I can't imagine what it could be).Yes, that's the way our minds model the world. But then the question is where are you when you close your eyes and think about your childhood or a math problem. So if 'you' can only be one place at a time, that's just a characteristic of how you think - it's not equivalent to the fact that a macroscopic object (like you body) can only be one place at a time. If thinking is computation there is no reason that thoughts could not included awareness of being two places at once (like the Borg);Consciousness is awareness and feelings... Maybe it's a limitation of my way of thinking, but I can't see it remotely possible to feel to be in two bodies at once, doing two tasks at once. I can only consciously focus at any moment on one thing, that does not preclude fast switching of attention or back and forth attention, but at any time I feel to be one and only one. When I talks about definite location, it's not about location in time and space, but the feeling of wholeness.
Right, there's nothing about being conscious that implies you are conscious AT some place. Your feeling of being here or there or in a particular body is an inference (though maybe a hardwired one). So if John Clark could see, smell, feel, Washington or Moscow at will, just by a shift of attention we could either justifiably say he was in both places at once OR we could say John Clark is really a physical body and he is where that body is.
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