points
13 days ago
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By thinking about what a computer is actually doing & realizing that attributing thought to an arthmetic gadget leads to all sorts of nonsensical consequences like an arrangement of dominoes & their cascade being a thought. The metaphysics of thinking computers is incoherent & if you study computability theory you'll reach the same conclusion.
elcomet
13 days ago
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I'd say that thoughts and reasoning are two different things, you're moving the goalpost.

But what makes the computer hardware fundamentally incompatible with thinking? Compared to a brain

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measurablefunc
13 days ago
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I've already explained it in several places. The burden of proof is on those drawing the equivalence to provide actual evidence for why they believe carbon & silicon are interchangeable & why substrate independence is a valid assumption. I have studied this problem for much longer than many people commenting on this issue & I am telling you that your position is metaphysically incoherent.
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