RashHeuristics

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by RashHeuristics 7y ago
That does not follow either for if we are purely bio-electrical then we can not have beliefs. Strawman? What? Programming languages running on turing machines are abstract entities, they only exist in your mind, not in reality. The physical
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by RashHeuristics 7y ago
no it would show that you are not simulated
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by RashHeuristics 7y ago
if we are simulated entities then there is no "we". 'we' do not have existence. that would indeed make life not worth living, on account of there not being a life there in the first place
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by RashHeuristics 7y ago
A raspberry pi, in being turing complete, has the ability to simulate the fastest supercomputer ever built (just give it a big enough harddrive to capture the RAM). More speed does not give you any extra ability in causing a computer to be
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by RashHeuristics 7y ago
human
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by RashHeuristics 7y ago
They do not hold concepts, they are simply physical items behaving in accord with physical principles. You as a human interpret them (wrongly) to hold concepts. You can as well interpret them to be something else. None of your interpretatio
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by RashHeuristics 7y ago
not nihilism, materalistic eliminativism - just happens to have nihilism as a consequence.
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by RashHeuristics 7y ago
It does not follow that " a purely bioelectrical system at least is able to reproduce an entity that believes itself to be conscious" simply because you believe yourself to be conscious. A human simply being purely bioelectrical i
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by RashHeuristics 7y ago
No, it would not allow you to create consciousness, it would simply mean that there is no such thing as consciousness. eliminative materialism would be true. there would be no 'you' to live forever. Us not knowing exactly how some
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by RashHeuristics 7y ago
It is not a non-sequitor, it follows from the concepts, something being worth doing is not a part of physics/math. If math/physics is all you have then you have no "worth doing".
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by RashHeuristics 7y ago
If the brain is just bioelectrical hardware then there is nothing worth reverse engineering, nor is there any worth to anything at all. You can simulate digestion with a turing machine all you want, but that simulation wont digest any food.
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by RashHeuristics 7y ago
The introspective ability to hold abstract concepts in the mind is the source of the statement that humans can do so. It is what Aristotle called the intellectual soul, not qualia. Qualia is an experience and has no relation to holding abst
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by RashHeuristics 7y ago
>"that there is some vital field or other presently intangible influence exclusive to biological life" There is. The ability to instantiate one specific abstract into a physical item. An abstract can for example be the idea of