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kilobug comments on Zombies Redacted - Less Wrong Discussion

33 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 July 2016 08:16PM

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Comment author: kilobug 05 July 2016 12:22:15PM 4 points [-]

Not having a solution doesn't prevent from criticizing an hypothesis or theory on the subject. I don't know what are the prime factors of 4567613486214 but I know that "5" is not a valid answer (numbers having 5 among their prime factors end up with 5 or 0) and that "blue" doesn't have the shape of a valid answer. So saying p-zombism and epiphenomenalism aren't valid answers to the "hard problem of consciousness" doesn't require having a solution to it.

Comment author: gjm 05 July 2016 02:33:08PM -1 points [-]

Quite true, but if you follow the link in Furcas's last paragraph (which may not have been there when you wrote your comment) you will see Eliezer more or less explicitly claiming to have a solution.

Comment author: Furcas 05 July 2016 06:58:52PM 1 point [-]

Yeah, I edited my comment after reading kilobug's.