re:Re: QM not (yet, at least) needed to explain why we can't experience other minds

2002-12-27 Thread Marchal Bruno
Dear Stephen, When you say: [...] We might not be able to know what it is like to be a bat but surely we could know what it is like to be an ameoba! It is amusing because I describe often---for exemple my thesis or http://www.escribe.com/science/theory/m3651.html--- my whole work as an attempt

RE: QM not (yet, at least) needed to explain why we can't experience other minds

2002-12-25 Thread Colin Hales
-Original Message- From: Tim May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 25 December 2002 2:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: QM not (yet, at least) needed to explain why we can't experience other minds On Monday, December 23, 2002, at 08:06 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote:

QM not (yet, at least) needed to explain why we can't experience other minds

2002-12-24 Thread Tim May
On Monday, December 23, 2002, at 08:06 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Yes. I strongly suspect that minds are quantum mechanical. My arguement is at this point very hand waving, but it seems to me that if minds are purely classical when it would not be difficult for us to imagine, i.e.

Re: QM not (yet, at least) needed to explain why we can't experience other minds

2002-12-24 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Tim, Interleaving. - Original Message - From: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 10:48 AM Subject: QM not (yet, at least) needed to explain why we can't experience other minds On Monday, December 23, 2002, at 08:06 PM, Stephen