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Re:A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explan... by hackinthebochs on Sunday July 07, 2024 @12:16PM (#40898599)
>Interpretations of quantum mechanics are testable, they have to produce quantum mechanics, which puts a very narrow constraint on possible theories.

No, this is not what anyone means by a theory being testable. An interpretation of QM by assumption reproduces all the same results of QM. That's why its an interpretation. In the same way, the p-zombie thought experiment by assumption reproduces all of physics without any deviation. QM interpretations and the p-zombie argument are on the same footing here.

>These type of theories do not have to obey any constraint, and you can trivially produce an infinite amount of them.

This just shows a lack of understanding of what the p-zombie argument is claiming. Perhaps revisit your initial misconceptions rather than piling on the mistakes?

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Re:A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explan... by chr1 on Sunday July 07, 2024 @03:05PM (#40899688)
Interpretation of QM does not "reproduce results by assumption", it provides a computational scheme for obtaining equations of QM. P-zombie argument on the other hand does not produce anything.
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