randallsquared comments on Framing Consciousness - Less Wrong

-8 Post author: cousin_it 08 May 2009 10:27AM

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Comment author: randallsquared 08 May 2009 01:14:36PM 1 point [-]

Well, it certainly can't be a no question from the inside, at least.

Comment author: cousin_it 08 May 2009 01:31:15PM *  0 points [-]

The whole argument isn't about decidability at all, whether internal or external. And if you consider the existence of subjective experience to be neither true nor false in some cases, you fail Point 1.

Comment author: conchis 08 May 2009 01:59:28PM *  0 points [-]

Point 1 accepts the possibility that consciousness may not be binary, but could instead have degrees. Point 2 fudges this. Point 3 then assumes that it's binary.

Comment author: cousin_it 08 May 2009 02:04:59PM *  0 points [-]

Thanks, you have found a mistake in the post. But it seems minor to me because the whole reasoning from Point 2 on can be applied to a specific degree of consciousness, e.g. the waterline of neurologically intact humans.