State-Space of Background Assumptions

I've taken the survey and I can confirm that it's three pages long: it was not atrociously boring.

Done. Looking forward to seeing your results!

Took the survey, but I was very unsure of what a lot of the options meant. "Consciousness is different than the subject?" That doesn't make much sense to me as a sentence, much less a concept.

I also didn't know a lot of the divisions between the groups to identify with - there were 5 or 6 subcategories of 'transhumanist', and I didn't want to take 10 minutes to look up which ones I am. I would have left those blank or hit a 'I don't know what this is' button, but the survey didn't allow it.

Done. Your previous analysis was interesting. Looking forward to more.

I have a question:

In your post, "A Workable Solution to the Problem of Other Minds", you talk about solving the problem by connecting and disconnecting minds (i.e. doing mind-coalescing and decolescing). I also had this idea, but I didn't really develop it much. Do you know where I could read more about this proposed solution to the problem of other minds?

Meta: I suggest you state a voting policy (upvoting any comment that states taking the test) to increase participation.

I agree with the others, some of those questions would take way too long to answer properly. They were pretty vague.

And the middle option should reflect some neutral position like 'I'm not sure' rather than 'it's irrelevant for consciousness', or whatever. That's what I used it for.

Also (though this is really my fault) some of those terms were unfamiliar, and I was feeling to lazy too look them all up, so you may get some anomalies in there. I expect some people might have done this with at least one question.

I couldn't fill the survey because most of the questions that ask if "Consciousness is X" are too underspecified to answer.

E.g., is consciousness "the same in everyone"? Some properties are the same, some are different. Is it "a helpful illusion"? Helpful for whom or for what? Maybe it's helpful some of the time and harmful some of the time. Is it "a philosophical trap"? Well, it's trapped many philosophers, but there are also true statements about consciousness that aren't philosophical traps. Does it "arise with complexity?" Do you mean does it necessarily arise with complexity, or does it arise only with complexity, and what is "complexity" anyway? Is it "the output of a computer"? Do you mean can it be the output of a computer, or must it be the output of a computer (i.e. can all possible conscious states be simulated)? Does my brain count as a computer?

I could go on for almost all the questions in this section: I just don't know what is meant. This is a subject that people famously get confused about, so I don't want to try to jump to some "naive" or "obvious" interpretation of each statement.

For a few of the questions I can't think of any good interpretations. "Is consciousness not a something"? What is this asking?

Warning: the survey is very long, I gave up after a few pages.

Also, fix the links, half of them point to lesswrong.

Announcement:

Enough people are continuing to answer the questionnaire that it makes sense to extend the deadline until midnight (California time) of the Sunday 2nd of August of 2015.

Thanks for helping! I am aiming to have the writeup with the results ready by August 8th.

Done. Very interesting.

It is quite long but I expected thus. Maybe you should split it into separate tests (though I guess that you are interested in and expect correlations between the parts).

I found the questions very carefully worded. I especially liked the last question set with the std deviation scale. When during checking I noticed that I didn't have many marks in the zero column I judged that I probably fell prey to some bias, reconsidered all entries and moved some toward the mean. I only left only those entries in the +-2 columns where I knew from other tests that I fell into that range.

I'M also very interested in the results. When do you expect to publish the results?

I find rating the statements about consciousness hard because the scale doesn't distinguish Agree/Disagree from "I think I know the answer"/"I don't know"

Wow, that was a long survey. Done! I'm not sure how good my answers were, like others mentioned a lot of the questions felt underspecified.

Also done. The results may be interesting.