RE: Consciousness: Is it seperate from the human body?
September 29, 2014 at 10:22 pm
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2014 at 10:22 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
As an addendum - imagine that we built such a piece of equipment. No matter what the means of it's being able to peer into the abyss is, it will have to send signals, communicate with it's parts, or with us. Imagine that it's capable of sending a signal as fast as the speed of light. The distance the signal has to travel would put one very important limitation on the assembly. It would not be able to grant us "full knowledge" -in- the present moment, -of- the present moment...and I think that this ability would have to be included as a component of "full knowledge". If the assembly was infinitely small, no travel distance (and ignoring the speed of our own signals..because in this case the machine would be able to give us the knowledge even if we weren't capable of receiving it) - then maybe..maybe, but even here the distance from an event to the apparatus would have to be nil. A piece of equipment that is simultaneously everywhere, and infinitely small.
So there's one reason that building such instrumentation may actually be fundamentally impossible.
So there's one reason that building such instrumentation may actually be fundamentally impossible.
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