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eternal_neophyte comments on ​My recent thoughts on consciousness - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: AlexLundborg 24 June 2015 12:37AM

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Comment author: eternal_neophyte 27 June 2015 01:07:53AM 1 point [-]

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These are Von Neumann's ordinals!

Want to register agreement with your post, though it seems incongruous to say, one the one hand, that consciousness seems to escape definition and on the other the scientific method is the best known tool for explaining it.