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norvid-studies.bsky.social • 91 days ago

can't rule it out

If consciousness is a nonphysical property, maybe there are other nonphysical properties even better than consciousness, which we sadly lack?

schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2025/02/zomb...

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niplav.site•91 days ago

feels like a riff on Shalizi: http://bactra.org/notebooks/some-meta-ethical-positions.html

norvid-studies.bsky.social•91 days ago

have rifled through his website many times but didn't see that page, ty

niplav.site•91 days ago

I have mostly not read through his site, but that one stood out as great

niplav.site•91 days ago

recc to go more deeply?

norvid-studies.bsky.social•91 days ago

don't think i have one, it's "notebooks" so it's more just pawing through endlessly and pasting things down. and also i haven't been there in many years. but i will return someday

w-r.me•90 days ago

Hm, wait, but why assume we lack these properties? They're unphysical, i.e. causally disconnected from us, i.e. who's to say anything about them at all?

norvid-studies.bsky.social•90 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/norvid-studies.bsky.social/post/3lj4t3gicyc2m

norvid-studies.bsky.social•90 days ago

that may not be what he intended but it's what i took from it

crossslide.bsky.social•91 days ago

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godoglyness.bsky.social•91 days ago

It's one of those "probably a reductio" things that might in the end just be true anyway

Like tunnel elves, maybe, I guess

...Tread carefully lest the hyperconscious Bingleton delete you

ewb.io•91 days ago

stopped reading at “nonphysical property”

norvid-studies.bsky.social•91 days ago

i think you could regenerate the same argument from "physical property we don't understand well of which there might be unguessed at others". but i'd have to read it

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