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Re:The Hippies Were Right: It's All about Vibrations, Man by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday December 07, 2018 @02:00PM (#18630491)
You're missing the point, which is this: How do you know your scientific test is accurate? With a disease, we know by looking at the results of people who were inoculated or treated vs those who weren't. This is possible because data is objective.

When you are making your magic consciousness detector, how will you know when it is working?

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Re:The Hippies Were Right: It's All about Vibrations, Man by saalweachter on Friday December 07, 2018 @03:27PM (#18631299)
Why do you need a consciousness detector/test at all to study the nature of consciousness and develop a falsifiable theory that explains its origins, properties, and the conditions under which it can exist?
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Re:The Hippies Were Right: It's All about Vibrations, Man by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday December 07, 2018 @04:26PM (#18631844)
If you have a theory about the conditions under which consciousness can exist, you will need to test it. How will you test that theory if you cannot tell what is and isn't conscious in the first place?

Let's say my theory says that rocks are conscious and hippos are not. Without some means of detecting consciousness this theory is untestable.

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