Experimental repeatability
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What does mean if an experiment can not be repeated? What does it means if an experiment that is repeated with the same conditions do not have the same results?
The purpose of experiments are to answer "What if questions?" Through logical induction and cumulative previous knowledge scientific theories are developed based on repeatable experiments.
Most of the time experiments are to complex to preform just once so they are not going to be repeated either. Many complex experiments have to be broken down into more manageable parts. It is likely that many experiments that we can imagine being applied to human brains will have to first be applied to isoidentireplicas or isocomponents in an isophysapaducer. This is because it seems that it is faster and easier to manipulate conscious electronic circuits that neurons in brain. The results would then be applied to smaller neural systems than brains.
Usually an experiment that can not be repeated means the results are different from the results in previous experiments, not that the experiment itself can not be repeated. Science assumes that if the results of an experiment are actually different than expected then the physical conditions of the experiment were somehow different. Of course, if you believe in supernatural concepts you might blame the differing results on a change in the supernatural conditions, such as a ghost made the difference. Awaretheory makes the prediction that if an identical physapath does not produce the same awarepath the difference is not based on a supernatural concept. Amazingly some supposed (and good) scientists use supernatural concepts to explain physical behavior. It is easy for a scientist that are dealing with an area outside of their specialty to make mistakes about what are real physical conditions and what are not. Since science has become so complex and we do not know everything it is not easy to decide what is a supernatural idea and what is actually a physical property of reality that seems weird. Multiplicity of conscious existence the bizarre idea (but apparently true when you remove supernatural ideas) that awaretheory predicts