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

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Comment author: Unknown 30 March 2008 07:32:18AM 0 points [-]

Eliezer: that last response makes some progress, since this is the first time I have seen you concede that "why is mind the same as the brain in a certain condition?" is a sensible question that needs an answer.

Given this, what makes you think it is possible to answer the question at all? Just because a question makes sense doesn't mean we can give an answer to it. And just because all the questions that you have answered in the past had answers, doesn't mean the the ones you haven't answered have answers. It couldn't have been otherwise: of course your answered questions had answers. This says nothing about the remaining ones.

And complaining that postulating "bridging laws" is isomorphic to saying "God did it" does not help. Postulating that energy is conserved is isomorphic to the same thing. Bridging laws or purely physical laws are necessarily both and equally postulates.