Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Hand vs. Fingers - Less Wrong

25 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 March 2008 12:36AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 March 2008 06:52:56AM 4 points [-]

Poke: Criticizing the critics.

Richard: What exactly is the 'P' that you think you're taking as a premise, here?

Also, in "Arguing with Eliezer", you write:

I find this commitment less absurd than denying the manifest reality of first-personal conscious experience (as reductive materialists like Dennett and Eliezer do), or engaging in the metaphysical contortions that non-reductive materialists must (see my 'dualist explanations' post).

If, as you claim, you understood my argument fully and rejected it due to arguments I fail to understand, then why are you writing what I must object to as a major misrepresentation of my views as I see them?

Namely: From my viewpoint, I'm certainly not denying your first-person conscious experience - just saying that it doesn't work the way you think it does.