Re: [sl4] Re: Uploads coming first would be good, right?.

From: John K Clark (johnkclark@fastmail.fm)
Date: Thu Mar 05 2009 - 10:41:05 MST


On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 "Matt Mahoney"
<matmahoney@yahoo.com> said:

> I believe that my consciousness does not exist

Now we both know that you don’t believe that for one second, so why say
such a silly thing.
 
> because every logical argument about it
> always leads to this conclusion.
 
Then logic be damned, direct experience outranks everything else, even
logic. If logic told you that you shouldn’t find it painful you’d still
pull your hard out of the fire at the first opportunity.

And by the way, what logical argument?

> I also believe that my consciousness does exist,
> because I can't believe otherwise

So you think you can’t think, that is to say you think you just think
you think. Okedokie.

 John K Clark

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