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Re:Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized by contravariant on Friday July 10, 2020 @08:35PM (#23798269)
That's a bit of a straw-man. It does not follow that the existence of knowledge that isn't derived from formal principles of reasoning proves the existence of a soul.
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Re:Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized by simonh on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:34PM (#23799243)
Replace the word soul with some essential quality of reason than humans have that isn’t teachable, and the article is arguing that whatever that is can never be acquired by a computer.
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