RE: Philosophical zombies
March 2, 2018 at 9:30 am
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2018 at 9:35 am by The Grand Nudger.)
A currently popular pov on that is that there is no hard problem of consciousness. Just a collection of soft ones, like anything else. I suppose the hard problem might have seemed more compelling before we understood how even the non-conscious things around us process information or how that manifests itself to us as behavior.
We'd been positing animus and spirits and souls for some time to try and grasp at that. It didn't occur to us that it was (or even could be) mechanical. Knowing now, though..that it is and can be, and being able to identify similar mechanics in ourselves.........
We'd been positing animus and spirits and souls for some time to try and grasp at that. It didn't occur to us that it was (or even could be) mechanical. Knowing now, though..that it is and can be, and being able to identify similar mechanics in ourselves.........
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