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Itofazpath experiments are experiments dealing with itofazpaths. They can be actual physical experiments or rational experiments where a set of beginning experimental axioms are used with a specific type of semantics, syntax, and logic. The experiments then can be judged by the correctness of the beginning experimental axioms plus the syntax and logic used. Beginning axioms often can be based on experimental evidence and logical consequences of physical experiments. For example, awaretheory uses the beginning concepts #1 that the structure and functioning of matter specifically the properly functioning human brain produces consciousness and ixperiencitness and #2 that identical structure and functioning produces identical consciousness and ixperiencitness. These two concept are scientifically based on experimental evidence produced through out science. They also simplfy the whole study of consciousness and ixperiencitness. The concept of ixperiencitness is based on our own personal experience of being conscious. We seem to experience a singular progressing set of experiences, part of which remembers that we had past experiences that we are not having now or not having exactly the same now, and a realization that we will have future experiences different than the ones that we are currently having at this moment. The scientific realization is that the brain is functioning and as it changes in its functioning it produces variation in consciousness.
"Do two identical physapaths produce the same consciousnesses or awarepaths?" is a scientific question until you try to create a physical experiment to test it? It can also be stated in the form "does an oriphysipath produce the same awarepath as a citophysapath"? Stated in another less technical way "does an original produce the same consciousness over times as a cidentireplica"? The statement can be yes, no, or a qualified maybe. You can not see the consciousness in another person easily so how can you determine the answer to this question scientifically? Someone might give consciousness a property like an object. Two different objects no matter identical they are are not the same object. They are in different places made of different matter. They have had a different past and will have a different future What if consciousness is not an object but a property of an object like a color? Can two different objects have the same color? It appears that in many cases that they can. If an object can produce a color why can't an object produce consciousness without being that object? Consciousness is not the brain because one minute the brain can be conscious and the next minute not conscious because now it is now part of a dead body. This is an experiment that happens all of the time (because people are always dying). But how can we be sure that a dead brain is not conscious? The same way that we know that an unconscious brain is not conscious because of what the person says he experiences when supposedly he is unconscious. By definition when a person is unconscious he is not conscious. Many people seem to have experienced unconsciousness maybe even while sleeping. Many people have fallen asleep and woken up latter and remember nothing. Others have been in a coma and experienced nothing. Along with this comes evidence that during comas and certain periods of sleep there is very little or reduced brain activity.
The point of this is science is full of cases of indirect evidence. For instance, the Higgs particle in physics is not seen but inferred from the existence of other particles.
One of the major purposes of itofazpath experiments is the mapping of itoawarepaths to itophysapaths to itoixpepaths and to itoepipaths. What a person might specifically want to know are all of the awarepaths and physapaths that have or produce the same ixperiencitness.
Other experiments might deal with how to produce a specific consciousness with a specific ixperiencitness. It might not be necessary to make them with a human body.
There are likely more experiments that can be carried out with itofazpaths than with any other science topic or field.