Craig. I dislike thought experiments: they are figments to prove one's point irrespective of other views (I refrain from writing 'truth' or even 'experimental fact' etc.). However: two people getting 'conjoined' as a SINGLE organism, both having different perceived reality (I will salute a better expression) - meaning acceptance of adjusted input into their individually fashioned 'mind' working in a personalized genetic built and in an already accepted experiential mini-solipsism of their personally adjusted sum of the experiences (?) they received so far, - is unlikely. We all are differnt and not malleable into a comon relational mass. We may have *similar* reflections, SOME, but the 1st pers. understanding is personal, no matter what the 3rd p. communication contained. (e.g. your: All experience is a manifestation of perspective.) I.e.: partial and individual. I see a fundamental agreeability with your position (not that is weighs too much). My usage of a solipsistic perception (mini, as a matter of fact) comes from Hales (Au) a long time ago.
It still does not point toward a 'will'. John M On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com>wrote: > Here’s a little thought experiment about free will. Let’s say that > there exists a technology which will allow us to completely control > another person’s neurology. What if two people use this technology to > control each other? If one person started before the other, then they > could effectively ‘disarm’ the others control over them preemptively, > but what if they both began at the exact same time? Would one ‘win’ > control over the other somehow? Would either of them even be able to > try to win? How would they know if they were controlling the other or > being controlled to think they are controlling the other? > > I think that what might happen is that where their wills conflict they > cancel each other out, and where they overlap they would be amplified. > The result is that the two people would become conjoined as a single > organism. That might be exactly how neurons hash it out in the brain, > molecules do it in a cell, atoms do it in a molecule. Add ‘If you > can’t beat em, join em’ to the list of sensorimotive primitives, along > with flux and flow, and perspective relationships. All experience is a > manifestation of perspective. What we see is neither solipsistic > simulation nor direct observation but rather the direct and actual > experience of what we can make sense of from the perspective of what > we are and how we participate in that relation. Our perception is the > net overlap of all of the sense experience of our subordinate and > supervening perspectives - whatever contentions and contradictions are > resolved by joining them. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
