Spirits (was RE: [extropy-chat] Qualia Bet.)

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Someday you will understand how qualia work.  And when you do, you are 
going to be WAY embarassed by the fact that qualia turn out to be PLAIN 
OLD PHYSICS, not mysterious physics but ordinary physics, just like the 
LAST SIX THOUSAND MYSTERIES that the human species encountered, from 
stars to phlogiston to elan vital.  That's what makes the mistake 
EMBARASSING.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence