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blacktrance comments on What are your contrarian views? - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: Metus 15 September 2014 09:17AM

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Comment author: blacktrance 17 September 2014 09:09:48PM 0 points [-]

I think it would take an a priori philosophical argument, rather than empirical evidence.

Comment author: [deleted] 26 September 2014 01:23:23AM 0 points [-]

Wouldn't cognitive science or neuroscience be sufficient to falsify such a theory? All we really have to do is show that "good life", as seen from the inside, does not correspond to maximized happy-juice or dopamine-reward.