Re:The crisis in physics is not only about physics
by Others on Thursday October 31, 2019 @12:39AM
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It is qualitatively untrue to say that most academic philosophers are dualists.
https://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl
(Also modern dualism is much better than spiritualism! There are some good reasons why people believe it.)
Re:The crisis in physics is not only about physics
by YeGoblynQueenne on Thursday October 31, 2019 @06:08AM
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>> We also haven't yet created AI machines that exhibit what we would call consciousness, but we have good ideas of how to do so and are making progress.
That's news to me. What do you mean? What are those good ideas that we have and that we are making progress towards, that will lead us to conscious machines?
Actually: conscious software. Presumably, if we can get to strong AI from where we are right now, then we already have the hardware and we just need to figure out how to write the software?
We have not yet mapped out the wiring diagrams of our brains which result in the human experience of consciousness. But that's a technological limitation in brain scanning and simulation. We also haven't yet created AI machines that exhibit what we would call consciousness, but we have good ideas of how to do so and are making progress. In both cases we know there is no need to invoke dualist answers, whether it be souls, ghosts in the machine, or 'qualia.'