On 08 Oct 2012, at 18:02, Craig Weinberg wrote:
Have a look at the first few minutes of this show with conjoined
twins Abby and Brittany:
http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/tv/abby-and-brittany/videos/big-moves.htm
You can see that although they do not share the same brain they
clearly share aspects of the same mind. They often speak in unison
but they can disagree with each other. This can be interpreted to
mean that they are similar machines and therefore are able to
generate the same functions simultaneously, but then how can they
voluntarily disagree? To me, this shows how fundamentally different
subjectivity and will is from computation, information, or even
physics. Even though I think subjectivity is physical, it's because
physics is subjective, and the way that happens is via intention
through time, rather than extension across space. The words they say
are not being transmitted from inside one skull to another, even
though Brittany seems to be echoing Abby in the sense that she is in
a more subservient role in expressing what they are saying, the echo
is not meaningfully delayed - she is not listening to Abby's words
with her ears and then imitating her, she is feeling the meaning of
what is being said at nearly the same time.
I think that Bruno would say that this illustrates the nonlocality
of arithmetic as each person is a universal machine who is
processing similar data with similar mechanisms,
For non locality, you need "same" instead of "similar".
Of course you can say that the "if-then-else subroutine", defined in
some functional way, act no locally in many different brains and
computers, but that does not give rise to the non-locality we can
"observe" from being in the UD, or in Everett universal wave.
but I see real-time Quorum Mechanics. They are speaking more or less
'in concert'. Were they machines, I would expect that they could get
out of synch. One could just start repeating the other five seconds
later, or they could lapse into an infinite regress of echoing.
Surely the circuitry of such a rare instrument would not and could
not evolve rock solid error corrective anticipation for this.
I think Brittany and Abby are two single individual persons.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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