3 ms·
During my childhood, I moved around frequently, and one of my valuable experiences this taught me that a significant portion of a culture's understanding of the
by Baeocystin 4y ago
During my childhood, I moved around frequently, and one of my valuable experiences this taught me that a significant portion of a culture's understanding of the world is largely arbitrary. From my point of view, concepts like souls fall firmly in this category.
- avgcorrection 4y agoAnd like concepts like conscious machines?
- Baeocystin 4y agoI'm a materialist, so that matter can think I take as possible a priori, simply because we do, and we're made of matter. And since I think consciousness (however one ultimately defines it) is a physical process, the particulars of any specific substrate might be interesting, but none of it surprising that it might exist.
- avgcorrection 4y agoMakes sense. Thanks.