Transferring argument
The transferring argument is an argument for the theory that it is the structure and functioning of matter that creates and then propagates consciousness and ixperiencitness through changes in space time and matter. Imagine this experiment: We start with a normal human being. Scientists remove his body but continue to stimulate the brain is such as way that the consciousness produced by the brain is a normal continuation as if the body was still connected. Now we are able to experiment with just the brain, with the well founded assumption that this is where the ixperiencitness or the conscious you is created. Now imagine that the scientists split the brain down the middle and then create another exact functioning left half and exactly connect it to the right half making the brain whole again and functioning normally. After any desired period of time the brain is split again this time the right half is removed and replaced with a exact functioning right brain that was just created. The structure and functioning of the original brain halves have been drastically changed. The question is has the consciousness and ixperiencitness that was in the original brain been transferred into the new brain? Was there actually something that was transferred, besides the identical structure and functioning of the original brain, into the new brain. How would you test for this "other" transferred thing? If there is nothing other than the structure and functioning that has been transferred but the ixperiencitness has not been transferred why, how, when, and where was the ixperiencitness lost? If we reconnect the body so that body can produce behavior, the behavior that it produces will reflect the consciousness that it is creating at this moment. The original body can be used but any body can be used that has the same structure and functioning as the original would have produced under the same circumstances.
In reality nothing has been transferred from one brain to another it was created as the structure and functioning was recreated in the new halves of the brain and then properly reconnecting the halves. If the original brain halves were reconnected again at the end of the experiment they would be able to produce the same ixperiencitness as the new brain is.
Can transferring experiments show that nothing is being transferred in these experiment? How do you check to see if the ixperiencitness is transferred. At each point in the transferring experiment when new matter is introduced, if the new brain portion structure and functioning is not smoothly and exactly integrated into the the old structure and functioning brain portion, there will be resulting degrees of chaos in the structure and function that will likely produce a very little consciousness or a chaotic consciousness. Very small differences in structure and functioning of the two brain sections upon joining could smooth out and eventually with external guidance become integrated.
