[extropy-chat] Qualia Bet.

Russell Wallace russell.wallace at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 21:45:50 UTC 2005


On 12/1/05, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> So your machine is malfunctioning and producing bad information about
> your brain.  Do you really think that you can disagree with me without
> there being any readable sign of it in your neural configuration?  Can
> you change from disagreeing to agreeing while your brain remains
> constant?  Seriously, I don't get what you're saying here.
>

I think he's taking the piss out of the "qualia are a mysterious thing
distinct from brain functioning, but all will become clear when we invent a
special machine to read them" crowd. (I thought it was amusing, though
correct me if I'm wrong, John.)

- Russell
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