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> the Christian God is in some sense "magical" ... In that case the brain might be, for example, a magic antenna to another plane. If those things were shown t
by shawnz 9y ago
> the Christian God is in some sense "magical" ... In that case the brain might be, for example, a magic antenna to another plane.
If those things were shown to really exist, then they would be part of what we understand to be our reality. So they wouldn't be magical, it's just that our understanding of what makes up reality could be incomplete.
- logicallee 9y agowell I meant it to be far-fetched. If we had no access to the other plane, there's not much we could do to understand the brain calculation happening there. whereas if it's not an antenna then it's just 3 lbs of meat.
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoOK, but they would be non-physical. And that would mean that a materialist understanding of humans would be incomplete. It might also mean that we cannot ever build a human-equivalent AI.