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> I couldn’t help noticing that all the AI Doomer folks are pure materialists who think that consciousness and will can be completely encoded in cause-and-effec
by nkrisc 2y ago
> I couldn’t help noticing that all the AI Doomer folks are pure materialists who think that consciousness and will can be completely encoded in cause-and-effect atomic relationships. The real problem is that that belief is BS until proven true.
It’s no less BS than the other beliefs which can be summed up as “magic”.
- pmarreck 2y ago> It’s no less BS than the other beliefs which can be summed up as “magic”. So basically I have to choose between a non-dualist pure-materialist worldview in which every single thing I care about, feel or experience is fundamentally a meaningless illusion (and to what end? why have a universe with increasing entropy except for life which takes this weird diversion, at least temporarily, into lower entropy?), which I'll sarcastically call the "gaslighting theory of existence", and a universe that might be "materialism PLUS <undiscovered elements>" which you arrogantly dismiss as "magic" by conveniently grouping it together with arguably-objectively-ridiculous arbitrary religious beliefs? Sounds like a false-dichotomy fallacy to me