endoself comments on Causal Reference - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: endoself 21 October 2012 05:15:31PM *  2 points [-]

I did read that before commenting, but I misinterpreted it, and now I still find myself unable to understand it. The way I read it, it seem to equivocate between knowing something as in representing it in your physical brain and knowing something as in representing it in the 'shadow brain'. You know which one is intended where, but I can't figure it out.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 23 October 2012 09:50:37AM 1 point [-]
Comment author: khafra 24 October 2012 01:11:25PM 2 points [-]

Can you describe the qualia associated with going from epiphenominalism to functionalism/physicalism/wherever you went?

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 26 October 2012 10:46:00AM -1 points [-]

Not entirely sure what you're asking, but nothing too radical. I just thought about it and realized that my model was indeed incoherent about whether or not it presumed the existence of some causal arrows. My philosophy of mind was already functionalist, so I just dropped the epiphenomenalist component from it.

A bigger impact was that I'll need to rethink some parts of my model of personal identity, but I haven't gotten around that yet.