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Consciousness Actually Explained: EC Theory – LessWrong

Greetings! • This has taken too long to make, and I'd like to polish it more, but it's time to release and move on to other things. Apologies for not posting the text here, I was having formatting tr…

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Eliezer’s argument against p-zombies is perfectly circular, I can’t really take someone seriously if they don’t notice that

Aug 26, 2022 · 12:15 PM UTC · Twitter Web App

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Care to elaborate? In re-skimming his post I’m not seeing it. All I really want to use from that post is anti-epiphenomenalism; there is some in-universe, physically causal reason we are talking about consciousness.
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Ok maybe not circular but full of bad assumptions l 1. (unprovable) consciousness is a software program 2. the parts of the program we can measure have obvious utility 3. the parts we can’t measure are exactly like the parts that we can (dubious) 1/2
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