From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Nov 30 1999 - 00:56:22 MST
Everyone has said everything they're gonna say about qualia. I propose
this topic be designated a dead horse and banned by voluntary consensus
from the list. If anyone would care to go over the Extropian archives,
extract all the posts on the subject, and organize them into some kind
of giant message tree, it would make a nice tombstone.
I'm sorry I ever mentioned qualia. I just wanted to use the previously
debated points, which I had hoped everyone would remember without
needing to reopen the subject, as support for an unrelated argument. I
should have realized the controversy would once more shamble forth from
its grave to eat the brains of the living. I repent of my foolishness.
I ask your forgiveness. And I beg for silence.
Sincerely,
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky.
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