<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/29/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eliezer S. Yudkowsky</b> <<a href="mailto:sentience@pobox.com">sentience@pobox.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Someday you will understand how qualia work. And when you do, you are<br>going to be WAY embarassed by the fact that qualia turn out to be PLAIN<br>OLD PHYSICS, not mysterious physics but ordinary physics, just like the<br>
LAST SIX THOUSAND MYSTERIES that the human species encountered, from<br>stars to phlogiston to elan vital. That's what makes the mistake<br>EMBARASSING.<br></blockquote></div><br>
It may be physics, but I suspect it will be PLAIN NEW PHYSICS.<br>
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Dirk<br>