From: m.l.vere@durham.ac.uk
Date: Tue May 16 2006 - 12:31:23 MDT
Quoting Phillip Huggan <cdnprodigy@yahoo.com>:
> This is a solipsist view. You are denying the reality of other minds.
I can't see how this is so. Obviously solipism can never be disproven, but I
can't see how it is integral to my position (unless you mean something
different to me by mind).
> The basic energy resources that allow you to exist come from somewhere.
Yep.
> View the AGI as the means of production post-singularity.
Yep.
> There. I can't convince you other people are important, but now you have a
> software program to play with for all eternity.
(on the deepest level) How did you (rationally) convince yourself other people
are important - other than as a means to the end of better qualia through
compassion?
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