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orangecat on March 24, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Secret Fears of the Super-Rich

Mind uploading assumes there can be physical control over qualia, and there's absolutely no evidence for that.

Well, the alternative is magic.

michaelochurch on March 26, 2011 [–]

My religious viewpoint, as a deist who believes existence in a higher power to be the most rational belief but denies the existence of "miracles", divine interventionism, prophecy or revealed religion: qualia is a miracle, probably the only one in this world, and the only one we need.

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