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It's a statement of pure materialism: Nothing exists outside solutions to that equation. All subjective human "artifacts" we struggle to identify, e.g., conscio
by PeterWhittaker 6y ago
It's a statement of pure materialism: Nothing exists outside solutions to that equation. All subjective human "artifacts" we struggle to identify, e.g., consciousness, are emergent properties of their material substrates.
Souls, if they exist (heh), are subject to the same physical laws as bubbles, sand, and frogs.
- xwolfi 6y agoSouls? What is this religious idiocy even doing here. There s no if, ofc information doesnt continue to evolve coherently after it's thinking processor disappears. Why would there be an immortal information processor centered around continuing human thoughts ? So we can debate MAGA politics with Cro-Magnons? "Souls" psch
- User23 6y agoEmergence is a handwave of colossal proportions that is easily revealed by asking "what is this emergence and where does it come from?" If you're going to be a pure materialist you don't get to just say oh it magically comes from nowhere, you have to show the mechanism. The cellular automata guys can be seen as giving that an intellectually honest shot, but I bet plenty of them are actually dualists anyhow.