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Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 22:06:19 -0500
Subject: SCI. CRYONICS of mice & men

Just another quickie, because I am so baffled at the psychology that seems to
reject clear proofs. I am determined to find out if the uploaders really have
this inviolable blind spot, or if I have it.  Keeping it short may also help
to prevent changing the subject or giving selective attention. O.K., just
this one little point:

Turing-testers insist that I cannnot know ANYTHING about another individual
except what I can infer from his external appearance and behavior. On the
contrary--as just one small example--I can infer an enormous amount of
generic information about him (with varying degrees of probability or
reliability) by observing and dissecting MICE and by doing autopsies on
CADAVERS and by sticking electrodes into the brains of MONKEYS. I can also
learn a good deal about him personally (increasingly including some mental
processes) through X-rays and NMR and PET and CAT scans and EEGs etc., and
surely this is not "external behavior." If I have a twin brother or sister,
or even an ordinary sibling, then with varying degrees of reliability I can
infer many things about that person--even if we have never met!--because I
know so much about myself and have information about the implications of the
relationship.

R.E. 


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