Celene's thoughts on consciousness (opens in new tab)

contra scott alexander (?)Yesterday, I went to the Berkeley ACX Meetup. Scott Alexander was there, and ran a Q&A session where participants could ask him questions and he would respond to them unless the questions were about eulogies, in which case he would pause to think for a few seconds before kindly passing. At one point or another, the questions drifted to theories of consciousness.As a kind-of-illusionist, I worked up the courage to raise my hand and ask him what I should do if I wasn’t...