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It seems possible that soon there may be a cure for colourblindness. The Mary's Room thought experiment attempts to pin down something about

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rational-and-irrational-thought-the-thinking-that-iq-tests-miss/

Overview In "The Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle" Eliezer mentioned that one aspect of consciousness is that it can affect the world, e.g.

In Zombies! Zombies? Eliezer mentions that one aspect of consciousness is that it can causally affect the real world, e.g. cause you to say

Here's a great article by Paul Allen about why the singularity won't happen anytime soon. Basically a lot of the things we do are just not a

Back in the 1990s I came across a site describing a plan for returning to the moon via privately funded enterprise. They presented a Referen

To me the following points seem hard to argue against:   1. Oil is harder and harder to find every year (we already took the easy stuff,

I've read through the Quantum Physics sequence and feel that I managed to understand most of it. But now it seems to me that the Double Slit