ClaimsSteven Pinker

“I suspect the answer is "never," since these conundra may be artifacts of human intuition.”

Steven Pinker, answering in Reddit AMA 12 March 2013 Steve Pinker Reddit AMA Transcript (Reddit AMA) archived copy

Prediction Philosophy, ethics and society

Pinker suspects that the strange problem of consciousness, such as whether an upload of a brain would feel anything, will never be answered, since these puzzles may be artifacts of human intuition.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

Reasoning

A prediction that something will never be solved has no horizon and cannot be confirmed.

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Steven Pinker, “Pinker suspects that the strange problem of consciousness, such as whether an upload of a brain would feel anything, will never be answered, since these puzzles may be artifacts of human intuition.” (said 12 March 2013). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_54cd6478863f, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_54cd6478863f

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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