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Comment author: Manfred 09 August 2012 01:11:02PM *  1 point [-]

you - or a Friendly AI - couldn't arrive at this "discovery" by reasoning just within physical and computational ontologies.

Could an AI just look at the physical causes of humans saying "I think I have qualia"? Why wouldn't these electrons be a central cause, if they're the key to qualia?

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