Richard4 comments on Hand vs. Fingers - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Richard4 30 March 2008 09:53:26PM 0 points [-]

"Please explain what it means for something to be genuinely conceivable, as opposed to just being conceivable to some particular person."

Conceivable on ideal rational reflection, i.e. without logical error, implicit contradiction, or conceptual ignorance (e.g. failing to realize that hand just means fingers etc.)

"I'm not sure how I'm supposed to react to this paragraph, frankly."

You're supposed to show that my premise is false. We have good reasons for thinking that there are no Martians in my nose. But is there any such reason to think that the zombie scenario is incoherent? Show us the contradiction...