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Comment author: timtyler 06 June 2013 10:15:23AM 1 point [-]

Most of us probably wouldn't agree with philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel. ("If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious" http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconscious-130208.pdf)?

Really? A poll seems as though it would be in order.

Maybe it it explained exactly what was meant by "conscious" there might even be a consensus on the topic.

Comment author: davidpearce 06 June 2013 12:15:30PM 2 points [-]

Tim, perhaps I'm mistaken; you know lesswrongers better than me. But in any such poll I'd also want to ask respondents who believe the USA is a unitary subject of experience whether they believe such a conjecture is consistent with reductive physicalism?