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Old 11-30-2007, 04:12 PM
Interesting Ian Interesting Ian is offline
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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos View Post
Okay, but I can affect your thinking about something by poking your brain,
Or by poking the remote robot's brain.

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so it appears to have a location. How can I affect something by poking it with a physical object if it is no-where?
Why shouldn't you be able to? This just seems to be your claim that the physical should not be able to interact with the non-physical. In which case why do you think this? Is it derived from your experience of the world? Or is it an a priori presumption you hold? If the latter how do you justify this?

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Then why doesn't it make sense to ask how we read someone else's mind?

~~ Paul
For more or less the same reason why it doesn't make sense to ask how the Universe is able to exist from one second to the next.
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