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Kindly comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 24, chapter 95 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Kindly 23 July 2013 12:08:14PM 0 points [-]

We still have no way of knowing if it's testing for souls or brain activity.

Comment author: MugaSofer 29 July 2013 04:30:45PM -1 points [-]

If it gives a positive response to humans and some/all intelligent non-humans but a negative one to people made brain-dead through purely physical means and/or various animals?

Comment author: Kindly 29 July 2013 05:07:35PM *  0 points [-]

I may be being stupid, but my objection still makes sense to me, and the sentence fragment you have pointed out to me doesn't seem to change anything. Are you saying that brain-dead people don't have souls?

Edit: I think I finally figured out what this means. Sorry, I confused the meaning of "positive" and "negative" response.

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