Karl comments on Ontological Crisis in Humans - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Wei_Dai 18 December 2012 05:32PM

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Comment author: Karl 20 December 2012 02:07:05AM 0 points [-]

Are you saying you think qualia is ontologically fundamental or that it isn't real or what?

Comment author: latanius 20 December 2012 02:41:38AM 0 points [-]

I'm saying that although it isn't ontologically fundamental, our utility function might still build on it (it "feels real enough"), so we might have problems if we try to extrapolate said function to full generality.

Comment author: Karl 20 December 2012 05:14:40AM 1 point [-]

If something is not ontologically fundamental and doesn't reduce to anything which is, then that thing isn't real.