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

[Dirk Bruere]

On 11/29/05, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

It may be physics, but I suspect it will be PLAIN NEW PHYSICS.

Dirk
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