toner comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 113 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: toner 01 March 2015 05:18:12AM *  1 point [-]

Here's a flawed solution, but maybe someone can fix it.

Harry performs partial transfiguration on his brain, to transform it into a state where he thinks that he's booby-trapped the universe (for example, by transfiguring some strangelets along with a confinement field that will expire before the strangelets do). Then he just explains honestly to Voldemort why the universe will end if he dies.

Comment author: Jiro 02 March 2015 09:23:42PM 1 point [-]

Does transfiguring your brain work in a setting implied to have Cartesian dualism?