>> 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. >> Bruce >> >> This reminds me of Schroedinger. “The doctrine of identity can claim that it >> is clinched by the empirical fact that consciousness is never experienced in >> the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us even experienced more >> than one consciousness, but there is no trace of circumstantial evidence of >> this even happening anywhere in the world” (much more in "What is Life?")
>I don't think Schrödinger was considering person duplicating machines. >He is using the normal transitive understanding of identity, which is >also under question in the duplication protocol. >Bruce Yes. Surprisingly Schroedinger had his own many-minds interpretation (quantum measurement). But he was mainly interested in the "oneness of mind" and in the "oneness of world". "The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist." "The only possible alternative is simply to keep to the immediate experience that consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown; that there is only one thing and that what seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing…" https://theworldknot.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/erwin-schrodinger-on- consciousness/ -- 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.
