On Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 12:08 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <
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>
> On 8/24/2019 9:16 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
> >
> > The mind is a pattern distinct from any of it's physical incarnations.
>
> What does "distinct" mean in that?  It's a distinction you make because
> you can think of a brain and processes of the brain as separate.  Just
> like you can think of an automobile plant as distinct from the steps
> required to make a car.  But that doesn't mean that a car can be made
> without any physical process.
>

It is distinct in the sense that bits are different from electrical
voltages or scribbles on paper.



> >
> > Brains have mass, minds do not.
>
> Neither does insurance or football.
>
> > Brains have definite locations, minds do not.
>
> How do you know this?  Minds get affected when brains do.
>

Because of what I write below.


> > Minds can exist in multiple locations at once, brains cannot.
>
> Poetic equivocation on "exist".
>
> > Minds can travel from one physical universe to another, or to
> > locations beyond the cosmological horizon receding at speeds greater
> > than c, brains cannot.
>
> OK.  Report back to us when your mind is on Jupiters Moon, Titan. We can
> compare it to what Dragonfly finds in 2026.  Could save NASA a lot of
> money.
>

It requires the cooperation of equipment already present on Titan.

Jason

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