On Sat, May 11, 2019, at 23:45, Philip Thrift wrote:
> 
> 
> On Saturday, May 11, 2019 at 3:31:19 PM UTC-5, Cosmin Visan wrote:
>> How do AI fanboys explain telepathy and precognition ? In the case of 
>> consciousness <> AI, telepathy and precognition are more easily explainable, 
>> in the sense that consciousness being non-local, it can indeed create cases 
>> in which spatially and temporally separated consciousness can communicate. 
>> But in the case of local AIs, how can such phenomena have any chance of 
>> being explained ? 
> 
> I doubt telepathy, but I do have a low-level precognition thought experiment 
> handy:
> 
> In the typical EPR experiment setup, particle A goes one way, and particle B 
> goes another way, to detector-A and detector-B respectively.
> 
> Now particles A and B are "entangled" (quantum-mechanically) , so that 
> detector-B settings will stochastically influence what detector-A detects 
> (and vice versa).
> 
> Now suppose detector-A is placed in a person's brain (not far away) in such a 
> way that particle A (via detector-A) influences a neuron or two, but 
> detector-B is light years (traveling distance) away. Can detector-B settings 
> made years in the future influence what the person's neurons do in the 
> present?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem

Telmo.

> 
> @philipthrift
> 
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