Jul. 8th, 2012

davv: The bluegreen quadruped. (Default)
Apparently there are such things as physicalist dragons. I was really surprised when I first found one, but they do exist!

I'm not one, but I know the evidence, so to call it, I have is incommunicable. One could make a robot that would utter the same sentences, and so a third person hearing the claims could not know whether they were true just by hearing them.

(Jaron Lanier had an amusing thought that the way to distinguish "robots" like the above from real people was to check whether they could hold a dualist position. But even if he were right, making use of it could lead us on that old dangerous path of "us vs them".)

Also,

Jul. 8th, 2012 11:44 pm
davv: (Corvid)
In the sweep of a second, all the people who live on this world experience what would sum up to two centuries of life for a single person.

In a single second.

(Sleep is not a problem, as the same share of those two centuries would be given sleep were it divided up to seven billion or condensed to one person.)

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