Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Causal Reference - Less Wrong
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Can anyone explain why epiphenomenalist theories of consciousness are interesting? There have been an awful lot of words on them here, but I can't find a reason to care.
It's good practice for seeing how the rules play out; and having a clear mental visualization of how causality works, and what sort of theories are allowed to be meaningful, is actually reasonably important both for anti-nonsense techniques and AI construction. People who will never need any more skill than they currently have in Resist Nonsense or Create Friendly AI can ignore it, I suppose.