mattnewport comments on The two insights of materialism - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Academian 24 March 2010 02:47PM

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Comment author: mattnewport 25 March 2010 06:59:52PM 1 point [-]

If the Church-Turing-Deutsch thesis is true and some kind of Digital Physics is an accurate depiction of reality then a simulation of physics should be indistinguishable from 'actual' physics. Saying subjective experience would not exist in the simulation under such circumstances would be a particularly bizarre form of dualism.

Comment author: bogus 25 March 2010 07:11:57PM *  -1 points [-]

Saying subjective experience would not exist in the simulation under such circumstances would be a particularly bizarre form of dualism.

The same formal structure will exist, but it will be wholly unrelated to what we mean by "subjective experience". What's dualistic about this claim?