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Re:Learning Concepts with Energy Functions by stevenhuang on Thursday November 08, 2018 @05:42AM (#18405460)
> Why does the mapping of biological neural networks to silicon substrate imply the human mind is a computer?

Is this a rhetorical question or something, because it seems to me you've answered yourself there. I mean, if the mapping works, what else should it imply besides the consequent?

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Re:Learning Concepts with Energy Functions by yters on Thursday November 08, 2018 @07:27AM (#18405777)
The implication requires a further premise that the mind is reducible to the brain, which we do not know to be true.
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Re:Learning Concepts with Energy Functions by feanaro on Friday November 09, 2018 @03:33AM (#18413094)
Not just the brain, but the whole body and, even more generally, to phenomena that can be described by physics. Unless you are trying to argue for a non-physical (i.e. magical) soul, the argument is sound.
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Re:Learning Concepts with Energy Functions by yters on Friday November 09, 2018 @09:13AM (#18414433)
Right, why assume the mind reduces to physics? This is usually how people argue for AGI being inevitable, but assuming the mind reduces to physics is a big assumption. Perhaps we have a physical soul.
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Re:Learning Concepts with Energy Functions by feanaro on Thursday November 15, 2018 @08:04AM (#18458919)
Why not? Everything so far had been reduced to physics; sometimes to at-the-time undiscovered physics.
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