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

29 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 December 2012 12:26AM

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Comment author: aaronsw 06 January 2013 07:34:20PM 1 point [-]

I guess you need to do some more thinking to straighten out your views on qualia.

Comment author: Exiles 12 January 2013 10:12:13AM * 2 points [-]

Goodnight, Aaron Swartz.

Comment author: MugaSofer 06 January 2013 10:39:26PM * 0 points [-]

Or you do. You claim the truth of your claims is self-evident, yet it is not evident to, say, hairyfigment, or Eliezer, or me for that matter.

If I may ask, have you always held this belief, or do you recall being persuaded of it at some point? If so, what convinced you?

Comment author: hairyfigment 06 January 2013 11:13:28PM * -1 points [-]

Let's back up for a second:

You've heard of functionalism, right? You've browsed the SEP entry?
Have you also read the mini-sequence I linked? In the grandparent I said "physical reaction" instead of "functional", which seems like a mistake on my part, but I assumed you had some vague idea of where I'm coming from.