Juno_Watt comments on The Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 01 August 2009 11:24:38PM 2 points [-]

you can't simply say that because we cannot use qualia to predict anything at this point, then you can just ignore qualia

In fact, I can and did. Furthermore, if a hypothesis doesn't predict anything, then it is a meaningless hypothesis; it cannot be tested, and it is not useful even in principle. An explanation that does not suggest a prediction is no explanation at all.

Avoid mysterious answers to mysterious questions

Comment author: Juno_Watt 26 August 2013 01:11:04AM 0 points [-]

"qualia" labels part of the explanandum, not the explanation.