alt Hacker News> ..idea anticipated centuries ago by the philosopher Baruch Spinoza: that our Soul could be a phenomenon of the same basic nature as any other phenomenon in nature.
Even the current Artificial Intelligence revolution is showing us that:
what was thought to be purely immaterial and intangible, that is, human abstract Reasoning and Thoughts, are actually tangible, physical, and even machine-reproducible.
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unparagoned • yesterday at 8:50 AM
In the original paper about the hard problem, Chalmers does say all that stuff is explainable by science or the easy problems.
namero999 • yesterday at 7:39 PM
Cognition/intelligence is not consciousness. Information processing vs phenomenality. AI is intelligent (it's in the name) but not conscious.
Was reasoning thought to be immaterial and intangible..? By whom? Materialism has been alive and well for a long time from what I can tell