At long last, it is done!
Consciousness Actually Explained: EC Theory lesswrong.com/posts/KbRnXMoy…
No more mystery, no more confusion; the solution of all relevant problems/questions regarding consciousness that have ever been raised.
Help me spread the good news.
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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
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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)
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4. Therefore the unmeasurable parts of the program have non-obvious utility
5. Therefore anything that looks like it’s running the program is running the whole program
Try applying this logic to a full stack web application and tell me how it goes
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Perhaps linking to his post was a tactical mistake – I don’t want to defend eliezer’s entire post/frame.
What objections do you have to the one thing I said I wanted to use/extract from the post? Your other points are either rendered irrelevant or answered in my document.
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