From: Robert Owen (rowen@technologist.com)
Date: Sat Jan 22 2000 - 19:19:22 MST
Eliezer S Yudkowsky wrote:
> Some observations:
>
> Menno Rubingh wrote:
> >
> > Incidentally, this same theory also explains why people insist so vehemently
> > (religiously) that 'qualia' are something real and that there simply HAS to be
> > something of a 'soul' inside the human brain.
>
> You should be very careful when attempting to explain away
> belief by such a nonspecific algorithm; this is so general and
> nonfalsifiable a method that it takes on the appearance and
> functionality of an aggressive debating tactic rather than a
> rational argument.
Sometimes a statement is so fundamentally important that it
deserves reposting, even though a reply would be superfluous.
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