Caledonian2 comments on Do Scientists Already Know This Stuff? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Caledonian2 18 May 2008 01:56:23PM 2 points [-]

it is necessarily wrong because conscious experience manifestly contains properties which cannot be obtained by any combination of the entities which that ontology says are all that exists

Saying that something is impossible is a strong statement that requires equally strong support. What evidence do you offer us that mathematical descriptions cannot produce the properties of which you speak?