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Postulating a Basis for Belief in a Technological Afterlife
Genady replied to Bob Cross's topic in General Philosophy
If you don't record all the necessary information, you cannot restore the original state. I claim that it is in principle impossible to collect all the necessary information. This makes your case implausible. -
I guess that the OP question is answered. As a personal OT note I wanted to mention that I don't have a positive vibe regarding Y. Ne'eman because he is rather familiar to me as a right-wing politician that he was when I lived in Israel.
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Yes, this is it. Any particle with a spin number s has 2s+1 possible spin values.
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IIUC, the spin quantum number of the particle is 3/2, which means that the z-component of the spin has 4 possible values, i.e., -3/2, -1/2, 1/2, and 3/2.
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Postulating a Basis for Belief in a Technological Afterlife
Genady replied to Bob Cross's topic in General Philosophy
@Bob Cross, Just to clarify my comment above. I meant to say in the first statement, "How do you know that the entire mind contents are recorded in the spatial locations of the neurons?". -
With a tiny little exception of sign language. (But it is not English. OT.)
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Postulating a Basis for Belief in a Technological Afterlife
Genady replied to Bob Cross's topic in General Philosophy
How do you know that the mind contents are recorded in the spatial locations of the neurons? I bet they are not. The neurotransmitter concentrations, release, absorption, and other molecular level mechanisms inside and outside of neurons are crucial as well. Moreover, how do you know that brain is not a quantum rather than classical computer? If it is, it is impossible in principle to record its state without destroying it. -
Perhaps it is so. I have a kind of screen in my mind, where a written text continually runs, and I read from it when I speak. So, I often make pronunciation mistakes.
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Isn't a concept the trigger for generating both the sound and the motor pattern of the word, among many other related aspects, such as visual images, emotions, memories, etc. ?
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To me, 'their' goes with 'they' while 'there' goes with 'here'. I didn't consider it a big challenge, I saw it rather as learning two very closely related sets of words: one, how to say it, another, how to spell it. Maybe it is in fact easier to ESL learners, as we learn speech and writing at the same time, while native speakers speak first and learn writing as an extension later.
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only native English speakers. Still ? I'm not sure how computer skills play into it.
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So, people who regularly make these word substitutions, (a) never knew the proper way, (b) forgot the proper way, (c) don't care ?
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Reading such texts causes mental dissonance sometimes. For example, you read "who think their female ..." and you mentally construct a meaning, and then comes the next word and ruins it: "who think their female enough".
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As a non-native English speaker, I'd like to understand why so many native English speakers so often misuse words like their/ there/ they're?
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Postulating a Basis for Belief in a Technological Afterlife
Genady replied to Bob Cross's topic in General Philosophy
Yup. Here it is: -
Restaurant food (split from Heat Regulation - Obesity)
Genady replied to Michael McMahon's topic in The Lounge
Food is an important element in building the human body. -
Postulating a Basis for Belief in a Technological Afterlife
Genady replied to Bob Cross's topic in General Philosophy
They have identical DNA, like homozygous twins, and the bodies are similar, but different. Especially, the brains. You can check many studies of homozygous twins. They help to distinguish between genetic vs. environmental effects on development. -
Postulating a Basis for Belief in a Technological Afterlife
Genady replied to Bob Cross's topic in General Philosophy
No, it is impossible because DNA has only part of the information necessary to reconstruct the body and the brain. The other part, which is interactions with environment during development, got lost. Without this other part, you don't have enough information to reconstruct the body and the brain. -
Postulating a Basis for Belief in a Technological Afterlife
Genady replied to Bob Cross's topic in General Philosophy
A technological speed bump. Obviously, I don't have the details figured out yet. Stone age men didn't have the blueprints for jet engines either. I did not point to something that needs more details. I pointed to a mistake. -
I would like to have a debate with someone that claims math is 'real'
Genady replied to deema78's topic in Mathematics
Math is not real. It is above that.