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47 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 April 2008 09:55AM

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Comment author: bigjeff5 03 February 2011 07:06:28AM 1 point [-]

That was the point Eliezer was making at the end of the post.

Occam's Razor makes epiphenomonalism the least likely of all possibilities by a huge margin. It can very safely be ignored.

And you know, if we figure out how everything works, and there is still something actually missing, well then epiphenomonalism will be vindicated. It still doesn't mean anything real, by its own definition, though, so what's the friggin point of it?