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> The Mental Life of Some Machines Sounds very interesting! My Google skills are failing me, can someone find a pdf?
by cousin_it 9y ago
> The Mental Life of Some Machines
Sounds very interesting! My Google skills are failing me, can someone find a pdf?
- CurtMonash 9y agoNot easy to find. But from memory, the tl;dr is: Any argument purporting to prove that human beings do or don't have minds or souls separate from their bodies applies equally well to finite automata. So, in the trichotomy I love, either: -- There's some argument proving that "physicalism" is correct. -- There's some argument proving that both humans and arbitrary Turing machines have minds/souls. -- Most things that have previously been written about the subject miss the point. :)