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The brains are different - the results should be expected to be different. As in a simplest mechanical system, the same force being applied to different masses causes different accelerations.

I understand that there are no two identical brains. What I don't understand is, how history of a given brain can affect its current thoughts and memories without affecting its current state.

The statement in the article, which I did not fully understand is this: I don't think it is explained in the article, why it might be so.

This is good and I can make it into a question. +1

No, I hope it does not. I meant to make it obvious that the hardcoded number is nowhere in the crystal, but the number appears as a result of the white light going through the entire crystal. And there is no algorithm anywhere in the crystal for retrieval of the number. So, I tried to make a simple example of a thing where "memorizing a number does not necessarily store the number itself", etc. If my example failed to demonstrate it, too bad for the example. (Do people know what I mean by rainbow crystal? My wife has one hanging on top of the window. It makes beautiful moving and changing colorful patterns on the wall in the morning.)

Just as a mental experiment... Let's imagine an elaborated rainbow crystal. Depending on direction of an incoming white light, different multicolored patterns are projected out of it. The query for social security number is associated with a specific direction of incoming light. When light comes onto the crystal from that direction, the social security number is projected out.

I got all of them (guess it was a short 'writer's block'). Nevertheless, if you have interesting suggestions, I could use them, too. Thank you.

To practice conversations with students who study ASL with me, I need to prepare a list of questions each using at least two words from a vocabulary. I got quite a lot of them (examples below), but am stuck with the remaining words: give maybe less little-bit outside not matter take happy various wind Here are some examples of the questions: why does snow become grey? what is the hardest part in learning ASL? do you know an old legend about a man who wanted to touch the sun? what kind of errors do you make most often? Any suggestions?

Sorry to hear that. Your perspective is valuable IMO. Thank you. I am not participating in this thread because it became clear to me that the topic is not scientific but rather belongs to a philosophy of engineering. I 'woke up' only because this recent reference is about a scientific hypothesis regarding a brain function.

I'm not participating in this thread anymore but just want to thank you for this reference.

Yes, it was. Yes, it is. No more.

Your question is engineering (boring). My question is scientific (interesting).

That is the question. +1

Yes, of course. But it'd be OT in this thread.

It'd be OT here, as the topic of what I've quoted is,

That's interesting. However, how would Kemmerer handle people with a condition such as aphantasia? Perhaps these people don't have this illusion.

They are all illusions. Found a quote I had in mind when I said this:

And, being a process, is emergent rather than intrinsic. I think it is a process of an intrinsic faculty at work. There is a brain structure whose function is perceived by us as consciousness. I also think that this faculty evolved as a means of learning.

Without the math, the simple resolution of the 'contradiction' in the OP is that the momentary acceleration of the falling body does not depend on the falling body's mass, but as the other body moves toward it, the total distance of the fall depends on the falling body's mass as well.

I remember that 't Hooft related to this experiment as an illustration in one of his writings. According to him, the noise is precisely correlated being precisely determined since the time the sources of the noise were affecting each other near the beginning of the Big Bang.

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Now I imagine billions of programs. Not for calculating pi, but for acting in billions of situations in my physical and social environment, each one unpredictable until it actually happens. I get an adult human.

That shows that "I am determining the design. The resulting behavior can be unpredictable." I don't think the word "volition" has been in the discussion so far. Other words, yes, but not this one.

Look at that formula. It has an infinite sum. It is not kind of formula that you can plug in N and get the N-th digit back. To get the N-th digit you have to run that sum calculation long enough and only then see the answer. You cannot predict the answer any other way.