RE: A Conscious Universe
February 2, 2015 at 12:53 am
(This post was last modified: February 2, 2015 at 12:54 am by Chas.)
(February 2, 2015 at 12:50 am)bennyboy Wrote:(February 1, 2015 at 11:22 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Bennyboy, to what do you attribute the consistency of experience across multiple minds?Why is it that I can't access information on your computer, but we can both share information on the internet? It's context-- each of us is part of a whole, and some of that whole is available to us, and some is not.
I don't think that addresses the question - it is not a good analogy.
A better one would be that we are constructed from common hardware and running similar software.
(February 2, 2015 at 12:50 am)bennyboy Wrote:(February 1, 2015 at 11:22 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Bennyboy, to what do you attribute the consistency of experience across multiple minds?Why is it that I can't access information on your computer, but we can both share information on the internet? It's context-- each of us is part of a whole, and some of that whole is available to us, and some is not.
I don't think that addresses the question - it is not a good analogy.
A better one would be that we are constructed from common hardware and running similar software. We are communicating our experiences, not sharing them.
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