On 11/29/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brent Allsop</b> <<a href="mailto:allsop@extropy.org">allsop@extropy.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If not Eliezer, is there anyone else that would be willing to take such a<br>bet?</blockquote></div><br>
I might go for it if you come up with a definition of "qualia" that I
can work with (your proposed definition doesn't mean anything at all to
me - I couldn't tell you whether I think qualia exist _now_ from it,
any more than I could tell you whether a snark is a boojum).<br>
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Are you relying on new physics for this stuff? If you are, I can come
up with a proposed definition. Or are you saying the mind is
incomputable a la Penrose? If so, I can come up with a definition based
on that.<br>
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- Russell<br>