Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Remind Physicalists They're Physicalists - Less Wrong

18 Post author: lukeprog 15 August 2011 04:36AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 August 2011 12:18:50AM 8 points [-]

But these are Yale cognitive science students. Surely they don't think the mind runs on magic, right?

Wow. I had no idea Yale cognitive science students had reached the astronomical level of competence where we ought to be surprised when they make simple mistakes. I assume that none of them are religious, either?

Comment author: lukeprog 16 August 2011 12:56:47AM 4 points [-]

You're right, I said that incorrectly. I should have said that I suspect people are more likely to choose to study cognition as information processing if they think the mind doesn't run on magic. I'll try to fix my wording without being too verbose.