Cyan comments on Bloggingheads: Yudkowsky and Aaronson talk about AI and Many-worlds - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cyan 17 August 2009 10:51:18PM 6 points [-]

If you can't tell us why Primacy of Consciousness is necessary for MWI, then we have no grounds for doubting MWI on the basis of your argument. It's like saying that X is a perpetual motion machine and therefore impossible, and then when asked in what way is X a perpetual motion machine, replying that it's implicitly a perpetual motion machine and you can't relate the exact details.