The Chinese Room thought experiment helped us see the nature of computation, as opposed to human thinking.
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Dr. Duncan MacDougall’s attempts to weigh the soul were ingenious as well as controversial but he misunderstood the soul’s nature.
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AI can never be more than a machine; the human mind soars far above any machine model. Be nice to your robot. But don’t think she is human.
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What’s changed? The cost of protecting materialism in science has risen gradually, consistent with the rising number of situations on which it sheds little light.
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Without materialism. math still adds up, physics and chemistry are still true, and logic still works. Only forgettable projects would be forgotten.
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The uploaded quirks and memories may be a good simulation of the deceased person but it is not a surviving self. It is just data.
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People I work with in the operating room and clinics and even patients tell me that they read our book and really liked it. They are glad we are speaking up.
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He noted that pioneer neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield started out as a materialist but became a dualist as a result of discovering things like these.
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Materialism, Egnor says, is rarely defended explicitly; rather, objections are brushed off and prominent objectors may be Canceled.
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At present, it doesn’t sound as though consciousness studies can take us beyond our natural folk understanding of consciousness.
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While the observed effect was small, any actual effect is a tool in the box and this one does not come with the risks associated with medications.
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The mind that is having a near-death experience is separated from the body, relying on its own concepts. It is not necessarily a channel of divine truth.
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Overall, Jonny Thomson’s effort to keep Dennett’s eliminative materialism alive unintentionally points up how fragile it has actually become.
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Human technology definitely has a history but the human mind does not. We see it where we see it, often just a glimpse in these abysses of time.
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Life would be so much easier for thinkmags if the mind were simply what the brain does. But wait. No one would produce thinkmags either.
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We remain confronted by the same old mystery: who, or what, imagines the birdhouse in the first place?
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The theme that science is confirming the traditional philosophical understanding of life is also the theme of David Klinghoffer’s Plato’s Revenge.
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Even so, Michael Egnor sees it as a “radical shift in the discussion about neuroscience and consciousness, at the highest levels of the neuroscience community.”
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If the mind is an illusion of the brain, the pursuit of science is illusory too. If the mind is real but immaterial, science is saved — but materialism is dead.
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Avian is perfectly clear: There is no mind at all in Coordinated Avian Models (CAMs). And yet, they’re behind a staggering number of new designs.
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