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> we are far from understanding what consciousness is, let alone how it works Couldn't agree more, but that wasn't your original assertion, to wit first para o
by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
> we are far from understanding what consciousness is, let alone how it works
Couldn't agree more, but that wasn't your original assertion, to wit first para of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24962220 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24962220
> Who said anything about atoms? I didn't.
You: "...from the operation of a purely mechanistic state machine" So what's a 'purely mechanistic state machine' going to be made of if not atoms.
- mensetmanusman 6y agoEnergy
- YeGoblynQueenne 6y agoA link to the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Note this one in particular: Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. Also, don't forget: when you assume, you make an ass of u and me.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoI appreciate the intervention, and I really must learn to let things drop, that said I've been trying to work out what the heck he's saying. I haven't knowingly responded to a weaker argument.
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