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Squark comments on Open thread, 24-30 March 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 30 March 2014 09:07:29PM 0 points [-]

1.1- Disagree, but I may not understand the claim (what's 'epistemic truth'?). 1.2- Agree. 1.3- Agree. 2.1- Agree that consciousness is the result of computing processes in the brain, disagree that a machine implementing the same computations would necessarily be conscious. (i.e. agree with physicalism, don't agree with functionalism). 2.2- I don't understand the claim. But I think I disagree. 3.1- Agnostic. 3.2- Disagree. 3.3- Disagree, especially with the claim that this is the only meaningful interpretation of 'should'. 4.1- Agnostic. 5.1- Agnostic. 5.2- I don't understand this at all. 5.3- I don't understand your use of the word 'real'.

Comment author: Squark 31 March 2014 08:25:19PM 0 points [-]

By "epistemic truth" I mean truth regarding the physical universe. Maybe that is a poor choice of words. Physical truth?

Comment author: [deleted] 31 March 2014 08:32:58PM 0 points [-]

So do you mean 'the only grounds for knowledge about the physical universe is the scientific method/Occam's razor'?

Comment author: Squark 31 March 2014 08:43:00PM 0 points [-]

Yep. Although under a UDT / multiverse interpretation it becomes "knowledge about the region of the multiverse in which I am located".