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Re:We Are Beast Machines by nickelpro on Friday October 15, 2021 @07:46AM (#28876723)
But then you are like a block of steel, you are deterministically governed by the laws of physics. Any block of matter arranged just so is conscious in that framing, which differs from the religious framing.
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Re:We Are Beast Machines by joeberon on Friday October 15, 2021 @07:47AM (#28876730)
> Any block of matter arranged just so is conscious in that framing, which differs from the religious framing.

That is literally the secular materialist view of consciousness, yes.

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Re:We Are Beast Machines by PKop on Friday October 15, 2021 @11:23AM (#28878725)
>you are deterministically governed by the laws of physics

Yes.

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