On 3/08/2016 3:19 pm, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
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.
The suggestion that the one consciousness could inhabit more than one physical body does not predict telepathy -- it could merely indicate that consciousness is not localized to a single physical body, that it is non-local, for instance. Or, indeed, that physics is not fundamental but derivative on consciousness.
You cannot rule out these possibilities on the available evidence (since we do not have person duplicating machines at the moment). As I said, this is probably a question that can only be answered empirically once we have actually duplicated people. Random theorizing is just not going to cut it.
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