shminux comments on I Stand by the Sequences - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 16 May 2012 02:27:55AM *  6 points [-]

Hmm, I suppose his position is not that everything is reducible to quarks and leptons, but that everything is reducible to something basic, in a sense that there are no magical "qualia" preventing one from building consciousness from whatever building blocks are available. This is certainly quite reasonable, and all the currently available evidence points that way.