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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Implications of Property Dualism for Artificial Intelligence

If you are a property duelist if you believe in mental properties as well as physical properties of stuff does that have implications for questions like artificial intelligence or consciousness on a computer yeah I think it doesn't have immediate implications. Some people think that if you're a property dualist you should think that computers won't be conscious to me so why should silicon be any worse off than say brains? It's almost seems like a weirdly materialist idea to privilege the things made of DNA over things made of silicon rightWell I should that make a difference I think so dualism was just neutral on the question the kind of property dualism I like a fairly you know scientific naturalistic property dualism with

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