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32 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 October 2007 09:02PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 October 2007 02:40:13AM 6 points [-]

It's just fundamentally mistaken to conflate reasoning with "observing your own brain as evidence".

If you view it as an argument, yes. The engines yield the same outputs.

Minds are a rather different matter. They are not conceptually reducible to neurons firing.

Just because you do not know how the trick works, does not mean the trick is powered by magic pixie dust.