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www.lesswrong.com | ||
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qualiacomputing.com
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| | | | | Abstract Personal identity views (closed, empty, open) serve in philosophy the role that conservation laws play in physics. They recast difficult problems in solvable terms, and by expanding our horizon of understanding, they likewise allow us to conceive of new classes of problems. In this context, we posit that philosophy of personal identity is relevant... | |
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joecarlsmith.com
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| | | | | On a thought experiment I find useful in thinking about what to do. | |
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unstableontology.com
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| | | | | Chalmers' zombie argument, best presented in The Conscious Mind, concerns the ontological status of phenomenal consciousness in relation to physics. Here I'll present a somewhat more general analysis framework based on the zombie argument. Assume some notion of the physical trajectory of the universe. This would consist of "states" and "physical entities" distributed somehow, e.g.... | |
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www.pbs.org
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| | | President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department, advancing a campaign promise to take apart an agency that's been a longtime target of conservatives. | ||
