Tim_Tyler comments on Zombies! Zombies? - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Tim_Tyler 04 April 2008 11:02:10AM 2 points [-]

Re: I think the hypothesis you're testing is completely hopeless, and your experiments should definitely be funded.

How hopeless does a hypothesis have to be before the funding gets cut? ;-)

Re: Richard Chappell, David Chalmers, and the foes of reductionism.

Is this really your battle? It reminds me of Richard Dawkins getting sucked into debating with creationists. I can't help thinking that Richard is getting distracted from real science by the opinions of the masses - and that, preventing scientists from doing sensible work and advancing scientific materialism is actually one of the things on his opponents' agenda.