[ExI] Continuity of experience

Spencer Campbell lacertilian at gmail.com
Sat Feb 27 04:37:31 UTC 2010


Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com>:
>Spencer Campbell <lacertilian at gmail.com>:
>> Assuming there are no supernatural-paranormal events in the universe,
>> as I have thus far, yes. That would be the only way that M could
>> conceivably have an effect on the physical world. Almost by
>> definition, really.
>
> A supernatural or paranormal event would still have some effect on the
> world. M has no effect whatsoever.

... I just said that! Exactly that. Was I unclear?

No matter the formulation, if M has any observable effect on the world
then that effect must be supernatural and/or paranormal by its very
nature. This has nothing to do with continuity of experience, however.



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