but with the caveat that life-extension tech is CURRENTLY used on people without their consent, and that is bad
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You don't find the centralized dragon-metaphor and magic-bullet metaphor are scientifically off a little?
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one problem is figuring out how to distinguish the dragon from ourselves (if that is even possible)
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Yes. I had a whole bunch of problems with the fable's structure even before deciding what to think about the moral thesis
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Ah, evil-twin aspect id'd at end of podcast. You're hard-problem-of-conscious denier; collective-cons>ind=cons. En garde.
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I think at least that people are "constrained toward [our special kind of] consciousness" by each other, and that it is largely social
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I don't know if I'm a hard-problem denier though - my thinking on the matter isn't even clear enough for that ;)
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Your other remarks elsewhere are clarifying that you're leaning that way at least subconsciously

