On Wednesday, 3 August 2016, Brent Meeker <[email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote:
> > > On 8/2/2016 3:29 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, 3 August 2016, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On 8/2/2016 6:15 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >> >>> It's not that it can't, but rather that it doesn't, and if it does then >>> that would require some extra physical explanation, a radio link between >>> brains or something. >>> >> >> That's what I mean by illegitimately appealing to physics while claiming >> that physics must be derived from computation of consciousness. >> > > Whatever theory we propose must be consistent with observation. > > > But, "if it does then* that would require some extra physical explanation*, > a radio link between brains or something." Is not an observation, it's an > assumption that all information transfer must be physical. > There is no convincing evidence for telepathic communication, so a theory that predicts it should occur would have to explain why we don't observe it. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
