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Ep. 192a - Philosophy of Mind and Artificial Intelligence w/Dr. Brian Cutter

Parker's Pensées

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Is the Life a Precondition?

I'm interested in the question of whether functionally human like AI would have souls of the kind that we do. So if you say that the thing is not alive, I doesn't have a soul. My question is like, okay well I think that that that's just exactly what we're arguing about. Yeah so yeah and so, you know if that's how you're thinking of soul then there's a kind of analytic connection between having a soul and being alive. In which case, well of course you can't be alive if you don't have aSoul because a soul is just kind of defined as whatever it is that's responsible for life. But if that’s how you

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