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Comment author: DanielLC 10 January 2014 03:13:02AM 0 points [-]

For all we know, there are fundamental constraints to consciousness, such that it can only operate so fast.

Yes, but it's not likely we're close to it. Either we'd reach it before creating a civilization, or we'd create a civilization and still be nowhere near it.

You ought not to reason from what is clear in a case that has been assumed away, to the substitutes that remain.

I don't understand that sentence. Can you rephrase it?

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