This pair of twins, with an uncanny ability to speak simultaneously may potentially offer evidence of a conjoined or non-local mind. As you will hear, they are expressing complex thoughts at normal pace, using complex and identical grammar structures and word choices. There appears to be no gap whatsoever in the timing of their words for much of it (some portions include a delay, but too much of it seems spot on).
This must be tested (they do not mention any prior tests) to see (1) they are truly speaking simultaneously, with no delay by which one hears and mimics the other. (2) They should be separated by a partition so that they cannot see each other through peripheral vision. (3) Earphones should be used to block their hearing each other as they speak. (4) They should be tested simultaneously with twin MRI machines to measure whether the identical sections of their brains are firing. Also, any signs of trickery or fraud must be investigated (although, frankly, the twins seem so nice, I would doubt that this is a stunt.)
See what you think. They have gone viral from a news story in which they recounted a robbery that they witnessed:
.
By the way, let me repeat my "hunch" on how the mind works.
By my notion, if no other explanation can be found, it is possible that their brains are somehow "conjoined" like bodily siamese twins, whereby they are tapping into the same thoughts which usually would be localized in one brain. Their brains are (1) tapping into something that is typically localized in a single brain (e.g., imagine twin cell phones that ring simultaneously when one phone number is dialed) or, in the alternative, (2) their brains are somehow sharing thoughts between them or (3) the brains are so structurally identically that they speak identically. I believe (3) is very unlikely given the individuality of the brain, and its plasticity, even in the case of identical twins.
This will be a major story that (assuming other possible explanations can be eliminated) will revolutionize our view of individual nature and consciousness.
Gassho, J
stlah
This must be tested (they do not mention any prior tests) to see (1) they are truly speaking simultaneously, with no delay by which one hears and mimics the other. (2) They should be separated by a partition so that they cannot see each other through peripheral vision. (3) Earphones should be used to block their hearing each other as they speak. (4) They should be tested simultaneously with twin MRI machines to measure whether the identical sections of their brains are firing. Also, any signs of trickery or fraud must be investigated (although, frankly, the twins seem so nice, I would doubt that this is a stunt.)
See what you think. They have gone viral from a news story in which they recounted a robbery that they witnessed:
.
By the way, let me repeat my "hunch" on how the mind works.
In my hunch (that is all it is), the brain does not "create" consciousness, so much as it isolates the more fundamental basis of consciousness in a particular place and vantage point, rendering it self-reflective, much like a single broadcast wave can be broken into individual sounds heard by individual ears via our personal radios, a single satellite's GPS signal places our individual vehicles at unique points of location, a carnival 'fun house' of mirrors breaks our single image into infinite images, much as a single brain can be severed though physical injury or schizophrenia into identifiable separate personalities/selves all occupying a single skull simultaneously. Each is the same yet different, individual yet ultimately precisely the same.
Much as the sea may be a single sea, but is also individual waves, drops of water flowing (the wholeness is just the movement and individual waves, while the individual and movements are the whole ... such that all is empty of separate self existence and even of wholeness, and really there is just flowing flowing flowing), you and I experience that we are separate individuals, and we experience that both of us are not each other nor the mountain or table or the cat. But really, in my hunch (and that is all it is, although many eastern philosophies, including many in Zen Buddhism have felt much the same, so it is not so original, and Zazen gives me some sense of this as the "little self" softens and falls away), I am actually you and the cat and the mountain and table looking out of my eyes, the cat is you and me and the mountain and table looking out of the cat's eyes, you are all of us looking out of your eyes, while the mountain and table are simply lacking in brain and eyes.
It is much the same as if I were in a large house, looking out of one window seeing the world a certain way, then (with amnesia causing me to forget the first window) looking out a second window seeing the world a quite different way ... but this is happening simultaneously. In other words, we are all the very same consciousness looking out of different windows at once, but not aware of each other, thus feeling like individuals of separate experiences and views out our window eyes. I am "Mary" just Jundoing, Mary is Jundo just "Marying" ... likewise for John, Harry, mountain, cat and everything.
Much as the sea may be a single sea, but is also individual waves, drops of water flowing (the wholeness is just the movement and individual waves, while the individual and movements are the whole ... such that all is empty of separate self existence and even of wholeness, and really there is just flowing flowing flowing), you and I experience that we are separate individuals, and we experience that both of us are not each other nor the mountain or table or the cat. But really, in my hunch (and that is all it is, although many eastern philosophies, including many in Zen Buddhism have felt much the same, so it is not so original, and Zazen gives me some sense of this as the "little self" softens and falls away), I am actually you and the cat and the mountain and table looking out of my eyes, the cat is you and me and the mountain and table looking out of the cat's eyes, you are all of us looking out of your eyes, while the mountain and table are simply lacking in brain and eyes.
It is much the same as if I were in a large house, looking out of one window seeing the world a certain way, then (with amnesia causing me to forget the first window) looking out a second window seeing the world a quite different way ... but this is happening simultaneously. In other words, we are all the very same consciousness looking out of different windows at once, but not aware of each other, thus feeling like individuals of separate experiences and views out our window eyes. I am "Mary" just Jundoing, Mary is Jundo just "Marying" ... likewise for John, Harry, mountain, cat and everything.
This will be a major story that (assuming other possible explanations can be eliminated) will revolutionize our view of individual nature and consciousness.
Gassho, J
stlah