Hopefully_Anonymous comments on Timeless Control - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 June 2008 05:16AM

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Comment author: Hopefully_Anonymous 07 June 2008 11:48:02AM 0 points [-]

Sebastian, Michael, Cassandra, you seem to be side-stepping the central question. It seems reasonable to me that "choice" is an illusory experience in the same way that much of what we experience visually is illusory.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-neuroscience-of-illusion

I'm trying to understand where Eliezer's expressions of certainty that human are capable of choice (rather than the illusory experience of choosing) comes from?