• RedDawn [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah, I can’t say I really agree with that one either, but I am a materialist and that one is by an author who says he wrote a book called “why materialism is baloney” so I wouldn’t expect to agree with him.

      Short of becoming the machine at least for a brief moment, we cannot know whether there is anything it is like to be it.

      This is, again, something I could just as easily say about any human that isn’t myself.

    • RedDawn [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      In reply to your edit, I appreciate the links and the conversation. I’m not really equipped to defend my position in the way the article writers have defended theirs at the moment, I will just say that my basic argument is that matter is what is real, and human consciousness arises from the way physical matter is arranged to make a human, so it’s something that is replicable even if we don’t have the means to replicate it yet (and even if we might never).