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Re:The 4,000 Lines of Code Harvard Hopes Will Change Transla... by yters on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @01:45PM (#17664914)
What if the immortal soul causally interacts with the observable reality? You cannot define away that possibility.
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Re:The 4,000 Lines of Code Harvard Hopes Will Change Transla... by adrianN on Thursday August 02, 2018 @03:39AM (#17669825)
If it's a proper interaction and not just a one-way influence from reality->soul, then the soul subject to the study of physics.
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Re:The 4,000 Lines of Code Harvard Hopes Will Change Transla... by yters on Saturday August 04, 2018 @01:31PM (#17687702)
Sure, but that doesn't imply the soul is physical. I am interacting with you through HTTP, but that doesn't make me or you HTTP.
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