To be fair, I came in to this thread expecting you to argue my nitpick and then I read some of your post and got confused about what you were arguing. I’m also a but confused about your comment. Where are you drawing the boundary around “a given brain”? Does it include any inaccessible qualia physics?
Where are you drawing the boundary around “a given brain”?
I’m not as such. But the existence of clusters in thingspace that correspond to the referent of our word “brain” is one of many (naturally) unspoken premises in the Yudkowsky-Chalmers debate. As such, I don’t believe that it is my duty to define “brain” precisely nor do I think that it is particularly relevant to the debate to do so.
To be fair, I came in to this thread expecting you to argue my nitpick and then I read some of your post and got confused about what you were arguing. I’m also a but confused about your comment. Where are you drawing the boundary around “a given brain”? Does it include any inaccessible qualia physics?
I’m not as such. But the existence of clusters in thingspace that correspond to the referent of our word “brain” is one of many (naturally) unspoken premises in the Yudkowsky-Chalmers debate. As such, I don’t believe that it is my duty to define “brain” precisely nor do I think that it is particularly relevant to the debate to do so.