retina_sam

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   by retina_sam 10y ago

   > If that's a theory he has there, then you imply god and the spirit are not a theory That's just lazy. You can't shift the burden of proof on me when OP was the one making the extraordinary claim (sufficiently sophisticat
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   by retina_sam 10y ago

   > But... Strong AI can be achieved, if nothing else by emulating a brain synapse by synapse. Therefore god doesn't exist? Isn't this type of thinking a form of cargo cult science, though? According to Facebook's AI directo
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   by retina_sam 10y ago

   > Likewise, if you were to hand Isaac Newton a paragraph explaining general relativity, something beyond his ability to measure even if he could conceptualise it, there would be no point applying Occam's Razor, because it's not
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   by retina_sam 10y ago

   > sam makes an unwarranted number of assumptions, and as such must be cut away with occam's razor. I agree with you that the logical thing to do with my answer is to cut it away with Occam's razor, and I don't blame you fo
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   by retina_sam 10y ago

   Yes, basically.
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   by retina_sam 10y ago

   > If weird assemblages of water, carbon, calcium and trace minerals can be self-aware, why not? Because humans (and indeed all life) have "spirits" which can think independently of the body, and that's the true reason we a