Perplexed comments on Consciousness of simulations & uploads: a reductio - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AstroCJ 22 August 2010 10:54:26AM 0 points [-]

Disagree. If we allow humans to be deterministic then a "human as we know them" is driven solely by the physical laws of our universe; there is no sense in talking about our emotional motivations until we have decided that we have free will.

I think your argument does assume we have free will.

Comment author: Perplexed 22 August 2010 03:22:11PM 2 points [-]

I think your argument assumes "emotional motivations" cannot be reduced to (explained by) the "physical laws of our universe".