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> human-exceptionalism Rather living-systems-exceptionalism

• exe34 2y ago
  carbon chauvinism. if you try to argue about simulating at lower and lower levels, they still refuse to accept that a brain could be computed. as if QED/QCD can tell if they're running on top of silicon or under carbon.
  • freehorse 2y ago
    Living organisms have certain features that simulations don't, and in particular it is good to remember that whatever simulations we currently can run they are actually but abstractions. Organisms are evolved to survive, reproduce their forms and structures in time, and be in a certain allostatic equilibrium state, and that gives them a certain purpose and that simulations lack. If we look at organisms only as information processors and disregard the coupling of their physiological states with their behaviour and with the environment we lose everything that makes life, life.