Falsifiability and predictability argument

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The more predictions that a theory makes the more falsifiable it can be. The science of superimmortality makes many different general and specific predictions. An example of a specific prediction that superimmortality makes is that if the exact same structure and functioning is produced in another body the same behavior will be produced in this other body. An objection to this might be that this is no different than predicting that an unmarried man is a bachelor because the structure and functioning of a body is its behavior. But there is usually a difference between behavior of a body and the internal structure and functioning of the body. Awaretheory usually prefers the statement that the structure and functioning of the body produces its behavior because the behavior is not identical to the structure and functioning of the body. For example, the sound coming from a body when a person is talking etc., is not part of the body but it is considered to be part of the behavior produced by the body. The behavior of a body has an effect on its surrounding in the heat, radiation, and other types of wave emissions (like sounds) or absorption that produces. Once something leaves the body it is no longer part of the body's structure and functioning. Unless there is some supernatural factors that comes between the structure and functioning of a body and the behavior of the body identical structure and functioning will produce identical behavior.

However, any number of external factors can come between the behavior of a animate being and the observer of the being's body. As a consequence an observer can observe two identical physapaths and report different behaviorpaths. An example, two identical physapaths are being produced they speak identical sentences and the observer hears one clearly but there is a vacuum between the second body and the observer so the observer does not hear anything from the second body. The observer makes the report that the first person spoke words with meaning but the second person just lip synced.