On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 12:27:14 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 09 Oct 2012, at 19:27, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > > > > On Tuesday, October 9, 2012 10:09:57 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I think Brittany and Abby are two single individual persons. > > > > I do too, but we can see that there is much more behavioral > > synchronization that we would expect from two single individual > > persons. > > > > Then there are the brain conjoined twins: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWDsXa5nNbI > > (skip to 5:23 if you want) > > > > That situation is a bit different, but notice the similarities > > between kids who literally share some part of their brain and ones > > who share nothing from the neck up. > > I follow those twins, and others. It is very interesting. They are > cute too. Once they mesh the brain, observable facts are hard to > interpret. >
Yes, it's sad that the sensational freakishness of the topic makes it sort of taboo. It would like to see some really extensive interviews with them when they grow up a bit. I can certainly appreciate the desire to be left alone or to be accepted into social normalcy, but to me their situation is so much more interesting than normalcy, I wish that they (these twins and Abby and Brittany too) would talk about their conscious experience in detail. > > It is know also that some weird synchronization (like marrying at > the same time a partner looking similar) might occur between distant > twins, Right, twins separated at birth sometimes find obscure idiopathic behaviors they share. but it is hard also to verify or give credits to all accounts, > or even just to interpret them, as it might mean that a larger part of > the behavior is "programmed" in the genome (like here the taste for > the type of woman/boy). > This is where I feel like we should be seeing the limitation of the genetic assumption of identity. Surely a gene cannot cause an event like marrying to be synchronized. What if you found the gene and changed it the night before the wedding? It doesn't really make sense that two isolated mechanisms in different people can cause an event outside of themselves to happen. To me this supports my view that time, sense, and energy are really the same thing and space, matter, and information are their shadows. Craig > Bruno > > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/NrjwDcXmSN0J. 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.
