Mario comments on The mind-killer - Less Wrong

23 Post author: ciphergoth 02 May 2009 04:49PM

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Comment author: Mario 04 May 2009 07:06:04PM 1 point [-]

Not unnatural, obviously, but a contaminant to intelligence. Manure is a great fertilizer, but you wash it off before you use the vegetable.

Comment author: loqi 05 May 2009 09:20:25PM *  0 points [-]

I meant this kind of unnatural category. I don't quite know what you mean by "biological" in this context. A high-resolution neurological simulation might not require any physical carbon atoms, but the simulated mind would presumably still act according to all the same "biological" drives.