That does not follow either for if we are purely bio-electrical then we can not have beliefs. Strawman? What? Programming languages running on turing machines are abstract entities, they only exist in your mind, not in…
if we are simulated entities then there is no "we". 'we' do not have existence. that would indeed make life not worth living, on account of there not being a life there in the first place
human
They do not hold concepts, they are simply physical items behaving in accord with physical principles. You as a human interpret them (wrongly) to hold concepts. You can as well interpret them to be something else. None…
not nihilism, materalistic eliminativism - just happens to have nihilism as a consequence.
It does not follow that " a purely bioelectrical system at least is able to reproduce an entity that believes itself to be conscious" simply because you believe yourself to be conscious. A human simply being purely…
It is not a non-sequitor, it follows from the concepts, something being worth doing is not a part of physics/math. If math/physics is all you have then you have no "worth doing".
If the brain is just bioelectrical hardware then there is nothing worth reverse engineering, nor is there any worth to anything at all. You can simulate digestion with a turing machine all you want, but that simulation…
The introspective ability to hold abstract concepts in the mind is the source of the statement that humans can do so. It is what Aristotle called the intellectual soul, not qualia. Qualia is an experience and has no…
>"that there is some vital field or other presently intangible influence exclusive to biological life" There is. The ability to instantiate one specific abstract into a physical item. An abstract can for example be the…
That does not follow either for if we are purely bio-electrical then we can not have beliefs. Strawman? What? Programming languages running on turing machines are abstract entities, they only exist in your mind, not in…
if we are simulated entities then there is no "we". 'we' do not have existence. that would indeed make life not worth living, on account of there not being a life there in the first place
human
They do not hold concepts, they are simply physical items behaving in accord with physical principles. You as a human interpret them (wrongly) to hold concepts. You can as well interpret them to be something else. None…
not nihilism, materalistic eliminativism - just happens to have nihilism as a consequence.
It does not follow that " a purely bioelectrical system at least is able to reproduce an entity that believes itself to be conscious" simply because you believe yourself to be conscious. A human simply being purely…
It is not a non-sequitor, it follows from the concepts, something being worth doing is not a part of physics/math. If math/physics is all you have then you have no "worth doing".
If the brain is just bioelectrical hardware then there is nothing worth reverse engineering, nor is there any worth to anything at all. You can simulate digestion with a turing machine all you want, but that simulation…
The introspective ability to hold abstract concepts in the mind is the source of the statement that humans can do so. It is what Aristotle called the intellectual soul, not qualia. Qualia is an experience and has no…
>"that there is some vital field or other presently intangible influence exclusive to biological life" There is. The ability to instantiate one specific abstract into a physical item. An abstract can for example be the…