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30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 October 2008 06:15PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 October 2008 04:21:00AM 3 points [-]

It seems that Tom McCabe and Daniel Franke didn't go through anything like what Cassandra and I went through, since they have no referent for at all for the experience, and tried to map it onto belief systems or religions.

If I understand C correctly, the mutual experience that we're describing is nothing like that. You find out how to disable pieces of yourself. Then one day you find that you've disabled too much. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with religion or even with beliefs, except for whatever beliefs spurred you to start deleting pieces of yourself.