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The only current support for dualism is the lack of explanation of the source of experiential awareness. This problem has been so difficult that Harris has begun to claim that free will doesn't exist, others have claimed that even atoms have awareness, and Dennett has claimed that free will is something other than what people think. A better theory is desperately needed.Many people have been working on this. Douglas Hofstadter, Francis Crick, and many, many others.
But producing such a theory would not, of course, disprove dualism. If a theory explains the empirical facts, that does not of itself imply that the theory is true and that all the alternatives are false.
What do you mean by "disprove artificial consciousness"?That's not my approach. If philosophy were enough to explain consciousness, Daniel Dennett would already have the answer or someone would have before Dennet.
Also if it were easily explained with neurology, I'm sure someone like Harris would have already done that.
I'm actually approaching it from four different directions and am looking for an explanation that would either prove or disprove artificial consciousness. At this point in time, I've already disproved consciousness based on Von Neuman architecture. The question is whether a different architecture would allow it.
Harris says bluntly and openly that brain processes can't explain consciousness, but can only explain the contents of consciousness (including personality as a whole). Dennett has his own objections philosophically.
I never said that. I'm saying that it is impossible to create an artificial consciousness with current computer architecture, not just difficult, impossible. The question is whether a different architecture could produce an artificial consciousness.What do you mean by disproving consciousness?
I guess you would need to understand computational theory. Everything that can be done with a computer can also be done with a punch card reader and mechanical logic. So, if you could create an artificial consciousness on a computer, you could also create one on a very large mechanical adding machine. The question that I have not answered is what it would take to be able to create an artificial consciousness. For example, is a purely mechanical consciousness possible?What do you mean by architecture and Von Neuman?
That's true. Although I understand how he reached his conclusions, his limitations are obvious.
I never said that. I'm saying that it is impossible to create an artificial consciousness with current computer architecture, not just difficult, impossible. The question is whether a different architecture could produce an artificial consciousness.
I guess you would need to understand computational theory. Everything that can be done with a computer can also be done with a punch card reader and mechanical logic. So, if you could create an artificial consciousness on a computer, you could also create one on a very large mechanical adding machine. The question that I have not answered is what it would take to be able to create an artificial consciousness. For example, is a purely mechanical consciousness possible?
I explained that at the start. A theory of consciousness would disprove dualism.
What do you mean by "consciousness"? Are you using a definition from Harris, Dennett, Metzinger, or your own? Please elucidate....
I never said that. I'm saying that it is impossible to create an artificial consciousness with current computer architecture, not just difficult, impossible. The question is whether a different architecture could produce an artificial consciousness.
I guess you would need to understand computational theory. Everything that can be done with a computer can also be done with a punch card reader and mechanical logic. So, if you could create an artificial consciousness on a computer, you could also create one on a very large mechanical adding machine. The question that I have not answered is what it would take to be able to create an artificial consciousness. For example, is a purely mechanical consciousness possible?
Like most religious claims, this is unfalsifiable.
Well this one actually is falsifiable because it's dealing with philosophical concepts. If you can demonstrate that the concept of resurrection depends upon the concept of dualism then you have falsified my claim.
Well this one actually is falsifiable because it's dealing with philosophical concepts. If you can demonstrate that the concept of resurrection depends upon the concept of dualism then you have falsified my claim.
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