You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

whowhowho comments on One last roll of the dice - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: Mitchell_Porter 03 February 2012 01:59AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Article Navigation

Comments (107)
Tags: charity consciousness reductionism

Comments (107)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: whowhowho 01 February 2013 03:34:37PM 0 points [-]

We just happen to know a lot more about what particle configurations create "diamondness" than "experience of green"ness.

And if you don't know how to create greenness, it is an act of faith on your part that it is done by phsyics as you understand it at all.

Comment author: CronoDAS 01 February 2013 08:08:21PM 0 points [-]

Perhaps, but physics has had a pretty good run so far...

Comment author: whowhowho 02 February 2013 01:27:20AM 0 points [-]

The key phrase is "as you understand it". 19th century physics doesn't explain whatever device you wrote that on.

Powered by Reddit Powered by Reddit