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Comment author: komponisto2 31 March 2008 01:19:00AM 0 points [-]

We can play "maybe"s all day long, but it doesn't seem very helpful unless you can actually show that a mistake has been made.

Richard, the burden of proof is on you. You are in effect making the claim that a certain problem ("reduce consciousness to physics") is impossible to solve. But why should we believe that? When all is said and done, you appear to be saying, "because it seems that way". This is where Eliezer comes in.