Nisan comments on Causal Reference - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 October 2012 10:12PM

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Comment author: Nisan 21 October 2012 04:47:24PM 1 point [-]

It seems to me that the structure of your epiphenomenal model causes you to think about it in the same way that the structure of arithmetic "causes" you to think about arithmetic. So you can infer the existence of an epiphenomenal self as a sort of Platonic form. If you take modal realism seriously, maybe you should infer the "existence" of the epiphenomenal self.