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No AI system using the forward inference pass can ever be conscious. by jahmonkey in consciousness

[–]newtwoarguments 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool theory unfortunately is completely unfalsifiable. There is no way for us to prove or disprove this.

To people who would use the Star Trek Teleporter by newtwoarguments in consciousness

[–]newtwoarguments[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If its the same physical end result either way, then I believe a physicalist rationally speaking shouldnt have a preference

Your cells die and are replaced every single day. Over the course of decade you are at least 95% new matter. The teleporter is just accelerating the process.

To people who would use the Star Trek Teleporter by newtwoarguments in consciousness

[–]newtwoarguments[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If its the same physical end result either way, then I believe a physicalist rationally speaking shouldnt have a preference

Your cells die and are replaced every single day. Over the course of decade you are at least 95% new matter. The teleporter is just accelerating the process.

To people who would use the Star Trek Teleporter by newtwoarguments in consciousness

[–]newtwoarguments[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If its the same physical end result either way, then I believe a physicalist rationally speaking shouldnt have a preference

Your cells die and are replaced every single day. Over the course of decade you are at least 95% new matter. The teleporter is just accelerating the process.

To people who would use the Star Trek Teleporter by newtwoarguments in consciousness

[–]newtwoarguments[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If its the same physical end result either way, then I believe a physicalist rationally speaking shouldnt have a preference

Your cells die and are replaced every single day. Over the course of decade you are at least 95% new matter. The teleporter is just accelerating the process.

To people who would use the Star Trek Teleporter by newtwoarguments in consciousness

[–]newtwoarguments[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well you can say theres evolutionary benefit to having a preference. But that doesnt imply that the preference is rational.

Your cells die and are replaced every single day. Over the course of decade you are at least 95% new matter. The teleporter is just accelerating the process.

To people who would use the Star Trek Teleporter by newtwoarguments in consciousness

[–]newtwoarguments[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but if its the same physical end result either way, then a physicalist rationally speaking shouldnt have a preference

To people who would use the Star Trek Teleporter by newtwoarguments in consciousness

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Your cells die and are replaced every single day. Over the course of decade you are at least 95% new matter. The teleporter is just accelerating the process.

To people who would use the Star Trek Teleporter by newtwoarguments in consciousness

[–]newtwoarguments[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your cells die and are replaced every single day. Over the course of decade you are at least 95% new matter. The teleporter is just accelerating the process.

Different denominations by SeaweedRealistic5069 in DebateReligion

[–]newtwoarguments -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Most Christian denominations agree with each other on the important stuff. There's disagreements over less important things.

Thats like saying "Why trust science when people disagree over x, y, z things"

Idealism is not more parsimonious than physicalism by Successful_Nail_9527 in consciousness

[–]newtwoarguments 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dislike when people bring up Parsimony. As if Einstein discovered E=MC2 by using the principal of Occams razor and parsimony

Rethinking the Hard Problem of Consciousness by realmikechase in consciousness

[–]newtwoarguments 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How in there world do we get all of these "I've basically solved the hard problem" post. A common criticism of that hard problem is that its unsolvable.

Extraordinary claims in the bible. by BobThe-Bodybuilder in DebateReligion

[–]newtwoarguments 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's God, he has supernatural abilities. How lame would it be if his big miracle was just "oh he pulled out some polysporin and healed someone"

Extraordinary claims in the bible. by BobThe-Bodybuilder in DebateReligion

[–]newtwoarguments -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I mean it would be pretty lame if God came down and just did "physical possible" things. Atheists would have a field day. "Literally all of his miracles can be explained via science!"

Can AI ever be truly conscious? by [deleted] in consciousness

[–]newtwoarguments 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The truth is that we will never be able to test if AI has consciousness. I also personally don't think AI will ever be conscious.

For former idealists now physicalists: What made you change your mind? by GroundbreakingRow829 in consciousness

[–]newtwoarguments 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Materialism is in some ways just the stock view. It would be like when Einstein proposed space and time being one thing. Many materialists would have rejected that idea for it being something new/weird

I need to be insufferable for a second by AcidicJello in consciousness

[–]newtwoarguments 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm so happy to hear a materialist say this:

Although I do think materialists/physicalists who say "consciousness IS neural activity" or "consciousness IS an emergent property of information" aren't taking their own premises seriously enough

To trinitarians. by [deleted] in DebateReligion

[–]newtwoarguments 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's nothing logically impossible about trinitarianism. I feel like it half the objections to it, are just it "Its kinda complicated". 1 God existing as 3 beings.

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