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Old 11-27-2007, 07:15 PM
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Paul C. Anagnostopoulos is offline
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Originally Posted by Jacob
For example, because the receiver (or filter) is malfunctioning.
When you hit a radio or tv and it works bad, it's not that it's memory is bad.
I'd be willing to consider this possibility if there were specific places in the brain where damage messed up my memories: the places where the receiver(s) are. That doesn't appear to be the case, so it's proposed that the receivers are ubiquitous and undetectable.

The theory that the entire brain is full of receivers and filters for external thoughts, and that these receivers and filters are magical and operate on the quantum mechanical level, is virtually unfalsifiable. It is of no interest to most proponents of this idea that QM is one of the most robust theories in science, and that no evidence of such equipment appears in the math, and that people working on controlling quantum events for purposes of quantum computing have not stumbled upon the equipment. No hypotheses have been put forward to test the theory. No math has been developed to describe the equipment. It's a vapid theory that desperately needs someone to champion it. Having said that, by all means, I'd love for someone to do so.

In the meantime, I see no reason to believe that this incredibly baroque equipment and its supporting infrastructure exist.

~~ Paul
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