[extropy-chat] Role of MWI and Time Travel

[The Avantguardian]

--- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
> Please
> let's not label what  
> we mean by using this old word with tons of tired
> baggage.

I agree with you Samantha although I think Russell is
correct when he says there is a baby in the bathwater,
whatever we choose to label it. I would therefore
propose calling it a "psychogenic field". This is very
specific, has no historical baggage, and has room to
grow as it starts to be scientifically characterized.

Just as the Higgs field gives rise to the scalar of
mass, I suggest that the psychogenic field gives rise
to consciousness, will, and volition.
 

Stuart LaForge
alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu

"What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does." - Richard Feynman on QM

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