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This line of inquiry always strikes me as utterly alienated, sad, and creepy. I find it hard to believe that these people are actual zombies, though, despite what they seem to claim.
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I have been obsessed lately with the hypothesis that consciousness is the luminiferous ether of time. As with the spatial version, it is an awkward, just-so theory. To eliminate it, we need a weird new assumption similar to ‘speed of light is constant for all observers’
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I had lunch with Chalmers before he was famous. I tried to convonce him it was an impossible problem. I guess I might have had an influence on him... My opinion is unchanged. Objective methods simply cannot study subjectivity. We just have to guess who's home and who isn't.
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I don't think it is impossible, and I'm not suggesting entirely objective methods. Speed-of-light paradigm shift is just calibration of the sort of radical break needed, not subjective/objective.
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That works well until "strong AI" candidates come along, where both false positives and false negatives have huge costs. That's why I am opposed to making the attempt, but the zeitgeist is having none of that.
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