[analytic-borders] Conceivable; but, Implausible
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In a message dated 10/31/2007 11:52:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
jPolanik at nc.rr.com writes:
grant you that von Neumann was a little vague as to what the
abstract ‘I’ is; but, he was clear as to what it is not. it is not
physical; because, everything physical is subject to the Schrodinger
equation; and, something outside the jurisdiction of the Schrodinger
equation is required to collapse the wave function.
zombies are defined to be physically identical to humans; but,
completely devoid of any phenomenal awareness or subjective experience
whatsoever. so, can you explain how could a zombie collapse a wave
function without assuming that von Neumann is wrong?
Both von Neuman and the zombie would have first to reckon with
the corpuscular (mass) complement to the wave function and then realize there
is no such thing as a physical ego. In any case, the apophatic via negativa
is not fruitful for either physicists or zombies and best left to the privacy
of inner dialogue.
Bernard
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