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Against functionalism: why I think the Foundational Research Institute should rethink its approach - Opentheory.net
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| | Author's Note:Below is the prepared version ofa talk that I gavetwo weeks ago at theworkshop Quantum Foundations of a Classical Universe, which was held at IBM's TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. My talk is for entertainment purposes only; it should not be taken seriously by anyone. If you reply in a way...
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Why I think the Foundational Research Institute should rethink its approach | Qualia Computing
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| | by Mike Johnson The following is my considered evaluation of the Foundational Research Institute, circa July 2017. I discuss its goal, where I foresee things going wrong with how it defines suffering, and what it could do to avoid these problems. TL;DR version: functionalism ("consciousness is the sum-total of the functional properties of our brains")...
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The Universal Plot: Part I - Consciousness vs. Pure Replicators | Qualia Computing
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| "It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand,...