RE: Seeing red
January 9, 2016 at 8:21 pm
(This post was last modified: January 9, 2016 at 8:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I cant rule it out. They would diverge from, -at least- the very moment of their cloning (this assumes process perfection). You'd have to test them awfully quick. This, though, isn't the part that I had hoped to comment upon...rather, why we would go from an unexpected result in such a test (that, for example, two identical "consciousness systems" had divergent perceptions) to:
"a personal god"
or
"there must be some other type of stuff".
Neither follows. Nor would such a result eliminate all previous results in which the brains involvement in experience is made demonstrably clear. That would all still be there. This is, essentially, the old "evolution is false..therefore goddidit" bait and switch.
"a personal god"
or
"there must be some other type of stuff".
Neither follows. Nor would such a result eliminate all previous results in which the brains involvement in experience is made demonstrably clear. That would all still be there. This is, essentially, the old "evolution is false..therefore goddidit" bait and switch.
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