From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Fri Jun 01 2001 - 07:15:08 MDT
> I have a twin brother. We do not have telepathy. None of the
> twins I have
> ever met claimed to have telepathy. This seems to be something that
> non-twins seem to think twins will have.
Well, it might be bullshit. As I said I'm not a true believer. However,
this is not something that I made up.
The most common kind of story you here is that one twin gets hurt and
another one, thousands of miles away, feels an "inexplicable" pain.
A typical anecdote can be found at
http://tlc.discovery.com/tlcpages/twins/minds2.html
To make a good test of this, have your twin brother lie in a sensory
deprivation chamber for several hours.
Then, sometime during this period, stab yourself deep with a dagger,
recording the time of the injury. See if he experienced a pain in the
appropriate part of the body at the appropriate time.
I would carry out this experiment myself but, unfortunately, I lack an
identical twin...
>
> If the copy question requires telepathy to transfer my consciousness, I
> definitely would not bet my life on it.
>
We agree there! I wouldn't bet your life on it either. Let alone mine ;)
be
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