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Multivid arguments are based on the results of Multivid experiments. Multivid is short for multiple videntireplicas, so multivid arguments are based on arguments developed from rational experiments on multiple videntireplicas. A videntireplica can vary from a cidentireplica or an original in many different ways. A cidentireplica is predicted by awaretheory to have the same identical behavior, consciousness, and ixperiencitness as does the original, that it is a exact functioning copy of. We cannot see the consciousness or ixperiencitness produced by bodies other than our own so how do we determine what consciousness and ixperiencitness is being produced by another human or other conscious being? We use processes like approximation and extrapolation from information that we already know. The behavior of the original can be observed and known. He can tell us a lot about what he is feeling, thinking, desiring etc., If the original is you, you have a subjective view of your conscious self. A cidentireplica of the original by definition will produce the same behavior because that is what identical structure and functioning will produce. The structure and functioning of a cidentireplica can diverge at any moment when given a different sensepath or enviropath. When this happens what occurs is that the cidentireplica does not produce the exact same functioning as the original so it is now a videntireplica of the original. The videntireplica can give us a great deal of information about the consciousness the original is experiencing. This is because you can ask different questions to the videntireplica than you did to the original or cidentireplica. These answers and other none verbal behaviors will give greater insight into the consciousness of the original. A videntireplica can diverge in numerous ways at any point along the original's awarepath. Each diverging videntireplica will give extra information about the stability of a consciousness. For instance, how fast the consciousness changes with changes in the physapath. Since there are trillions of synapses that can be slightly different in the brain of a videntireplica there can be an enumerable amount of slightly different videntireplicas that likely will produce the same or very closely the same behavior as the original did. Since we know that in the brain of average person neuron's are dying and and sometime being replaced we know that many changes can occur to the brain and it will still produce the same ixperiencitness. Many different videntireplicas will produce the same ixperiencitness as the original does.