higurashimerlin comments on Does consciousness persist? - Less Wrong

-10 Post author: G0W51 14 February 2015 03:52PM

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Comment author: higurashimerlin 16 February 2015 08:20:30PM 0 points [-]

You would benefit from reading that post you linked to about dissolving questions. What you seem to be doing is like asking "does free will exist?" and trying to argue that it doesn't. To dissolve the question is to precisely show the thought process that produces the question.

Comment author: G0W51 18 February 2015 12:40:28AM 0 points [-]

You're right. I (tried) to show the question was meaningless; I didn't dissolve it. I somehow misread it on my first reading. Oddly though, Eliezer never explicitly stated what dissolving the question meant in the post.