Peterdjones comments on Getting Over Dust Theory - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Peterdjones 08 January 2013 08:21:00PM -2 points [-]

It's not that having an eperience of the specious present implies Dust Theory is false. It is rather that the computational theory of mind doens't strongly imply Dust Theory. Under the reasonable assumption that substantive stretches of computation are necessary for consciousness.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 08 January 2013 08:30:12PM 1 point [-]

It is rather that the computational theory of mind doens't strongly imply Dust Theory.

Ah. Well, I certainly agree with that.