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Re:We Are Beast Machines by adriand on Friday October 15, 2021 @11:52AM (#28879104)
> a really great way to confuse yourself would be to abstract the entire question of consciousness away from the life sciences and then wonder why you're so confused

Yes, exactly. Which is a direct challenge to transhumanism because it means that maybe it actually won't be possible to achieve immortality via brain upload, or build general AI (without first solving the life science "problem", i.e. building an artificial body), and so on.

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Re:We Are Beast Machines by eli_gottlieb on Friday October 15, 2021 @01:29PM (#28880399)
Sure, but was anyone really suggesting that we somehow create disembodied people? That seems to be the other side of the dialectical coin from immaterial souls, which are precisely what most Hard Problem disbelievers deny.
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