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As I understand, there was no testing that proved that they truly share their vision input or understand each others minds, right? In documentary one of the doctors only finds out that signals to the eyes of one child can trigger an excitation in the brain image of the others'. If that is it, then why are the articles saying so much about shared thoughts as if telling about observed facts?
I understand that all that is referred to as a retelling of the information that their family members gave, but in either case it seems to me possible to prove it either true or false. For instance, in case of the hypothesis of shared gustatory feelings they could've tasted the theory with giving one of the children something sweet\salty\etc. Or am I missing something or getting it wrong? DaemonDice (talk) 19:51, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The section on shared consciousness presents one person's highly speculative research, published in a philosophy journal and not based on any primary observation of the twins. This article is also the only citation for this section. This is an extraordinarily low-quality source for the tone in this section.
I propose that the section be rewritten in one of three ways:
1) Add more better sources and rewrite to reflect the information in those sources.
2) Add more context. A more appropriate first sentence might start with: "An article published in a peer-reviewed philosophy journal argues on the basis of publicly available reporting, that [...].", etc.
3) Delete this section. This is my preference. I don't think one (1) speculative philosophy paper qualifies this section as being encyclopedic, especially as this article is the biography of living persons.
69.173.141.86 (talk) 19:25, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I looked into the edit history and it appears that the section was significantly expanded by an anonymous contributor from Adelaide Australia, the same location as the author of the one article cited. I am therefore going replace the self-promotion edit with the original text.
Hi there- I am the author of the Synthese paper. The article was already being cited before I came across it, so I added some explanatory context. Your dismissal of peer reviewed philosophy in a prominent journal as speculative is prejudiced. I have added some citations. 2403:5818:559B:0:F10C:1CE:9A5:4D70 (talk) 02:56, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]