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Re:Are you living in a computer simulation? [pdf] by naasking on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @12:57PM (#23008975)
Searle is definitely not a materialist, but a dualist. His take on the simulation argument is that simulations cannot be built (possibility #1 in Bostrom's argment).
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Re:Are you living in a computer simulation? [pdf] by simonh on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @01:07PM (#23009099)
Searle does believe that consciousness is caused by physical processes in the brain. However he also believes in what he calls 'Biological Naturalism' whereby consciousness can only be generated by biological systems.

So Searle does not agree that consciousness is a product of or a form of computation, which is where he and I part ways.

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Re:Are you living in a computer simulation? [pdf] by naasking on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @11:13AM (#23020198)
His naturalism doesn't seem coherent. If no physical system can compute incomputable functions, then it's special pleading to insist that there's a difference between natural laws and mathematical laws.
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