MugaSofer comments on Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MugaSofer 04 January 2013 11:46:10PM *  -1 points [-]

I do think essentially the same argument goes through for free will

Could you expand on this point, please? It generally agreed* that "free will vs determinism" is a dilemma that we dissolved long ago. I can't see what else you could mean by this, so ...

[*EDIT: here, that is]

Comment author: aaronsw 05 January 2013 09:36:42PM 0 points [-]

I guess it really depends on what you mean by free will. If by free will, pjeby meant some kind of qualitative experience, then it strikes me that what he means by it is just a form of qualia and so of course the qualia argument goes through. If he means by it something more complicated, then I don't see how point one holds (we experience it), and the argument obviously doesn't go through.