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TheOtherDave comments on Malthusian copying: mass death of unhappy life-loving uploads - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 05 July 2012 06:05:14AM 1 point [-]

The closest analog I have for this is how it felt to not feel like I had free will, which I discuss here. I imagine not feeling like I have qualia would be a similar experience of not having my sense of personal identity engaged with my sense of perceiving red.