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34 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 June 2008 04:38AM

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Comment author: Hopefully_Anonymous 14 June 2008 06:09:26AM 1 point [-]

Roland and Andy, I think you're misreading this formulation of determinism. One may have the illusion/hallucination of being able to engage in deliberation, or relax. But the analogy is more like a kid thinking they're playing a game that's on autoplay mode. The experience of deliberating, the experience of relaxing, the "consequences" are all determined, even if they're unknowable to the person having these experiences. I'm not saying this is the best model of reality, but at this stage of our knowledge it seems to me to be a plausible model of reality.