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NoSuchPlace comments on Irrationality Game III - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: CellBioGuy 12 March 2014 01:51PM

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Comment author: shminux 12 March 2014 11:43:31PM 1 point [-]

How would one define subjective experience for rocks and atoms?

Comment author: NoSuchPlace 13 March 2014 12:40:04AM 5 points [-]

Defining subjective experience is hard for the same reason that defining red is hard, since they are direct experiences. However in this case I can't get around this by pointing at examples. So the only thing I can do is offer an alternative phrasing which suffers from the same problem:

If you accept that our experiences are what an algorithm feels like from on the inside then I am saying that everything feels like something from the inside.