timtyler comments on David Chalmers' "The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 29 January 2011 08:03:08PM *  3 points [-]

Nevertheless, to more practical people - particularly those of a materialist, reductionist, monist persuasion, it all looks a little silly.

Frankly, I haven't even bothered looking very much at this material. My attitude is more in line with the philosophy of the Turing test. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

Hofstadter has a good "zombie takedown" - in "I am a Strange Loop, Chapter 22: A Tango with Zombies and Dualism".