[extropy-chat] Qualia Bet.

[gts]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:32:36 -0500, The Avantguardian  
<avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience at pobox.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Stu, if you don't understand something, just call it
>> "magic", don't barbarize decent physics.  If this werethe SL4 list, I  
>> would let you go
>> on posting, but I would require that you not use the
>> word "boson" for
>> another year.
>
> Eli, while I am not an expert in QED, what is wrong
> with my usage of bosons? Bosons are integer spin
> particles that have unusual properties of being able
> to colocalize with each other (photons are an example
> as are gluons).

I saw value in Stu's argument not because of any alleged properties  
specific to bosons but because of his reference to their phase  
entanglement.

I don't like my own use of anthropomorphic language here, but one might  
say that phase entangled particles "monitor" one another. That  
"monitoring" may be at the root of what we normally mean by  
consciousness.  The physical concept of phase entanglement is consistent  
with the philosophical concept of pan-psychism.

-gts