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Re:Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the ... by anon291 on Monday May 20, 2024 @02:23AM (#40412847)
> portraying an ineffable, unobservable stream of will

I'm not sure why you feel the need to bring divinity into this. The universe is not purely a automaton not because of some purported unobservable god, but simply because all experiments indicate that we cannot predict the behavior of the basic building blocks of the universe.

Re:Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the ... by tomrod on Monday May 20, 2024 @04:37PM (#40420039)
I agree with your assessment. I mentioned the friction people to stem the path where when people begin speaking about multiple streams of access to knowledge, they are typically attempting to inject a common apologetic approach to make theology or philosophical arguments for divinity of various types and definitions.