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How? What argument? I may very well have misunderstood the standard LW position here, so perhaps I agree with you and just don't know it yet. But I thought Eliezer did in fact suggest we lack a precise enough definition of consciousness to locate ourselves in the quantum ink-blot picture. And he certainly wants to find a better definition.
Approaching Emile's metaphor from this perspective, I thought it pointed out the need for better understanding of the question.
Eliezer's objection is more about his distaste for infinite sets than about any mysterious properties of consciousness; he feels that the universe should be a large but finite thing rather than a continuum, and thus the granularity of that finite thing becomes an issue.