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Everyone can be described as machine-like if you apply that particular lens. From a first-person perspective I am pure consciousness operating a meat suit. You
by monktastic1 5y ago
Everyone can be described as machine-like if you apply that particular lens. From a first-person perspective I am pure consciousness operating a meat suit. You may argue that reductive materialism allows you to reduce my claim to one about matter, but the onus is on you to prove materialism -- which I suspect you'll be hard-pressed to do in an HN comment.
- jgwil2 5y agoI mean, if you accept that the laws of physics are deterministic, don't you sort of have to accept materialism? I would think the onus would be on you to show a mechanism for the interaction between the physical and the "spiritual" (or whatever you want to call it). In other words, how does this pure consciousness affect things in a purely deterministic physical universe?