Re: Geddes's 'Moral Perturbation Theory'

From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Fri Jul 02 2004 - 05:24:09 MDT


On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 06:30:15PM +0800, Metaqualia wrote:

> It is neither an assumption nor something I need to prove - they are just
> there.

So is everything else. Experiences only look special from the inside of the
system; making neurons spiking extra super special from microvilli digesting makes not
much sense. They're all processes in a physical system.

I always suspected people who use nebulous terms like qualia believe in
magic. Apparently, at least some of them do.

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