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		bbor 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Problem with AI Welfare Yes, if you take a dead persons brain and run current through it continuously so that it can direct a body and produce novel thoughts then that is equivalent to a living human being. Your brain is ultimately just numbers represented in neuronal form. What's conscious, the neurons?

pearlsontheroad 8 months ago [–]

This level of materialism is soul-crushing :)

bbor 8 months ago | [–]

Thanks :) I always take the opportunity to crush souls when I can, since they don't exist in Reality nor Actuality.

FWIW I'm a hardcore idealist, but in the way it was originally posed, not in the quasi-mystical way the Hegelians corrupted it into.

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