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We Are Not Software: David Bentley Hart with Acid Horizon

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Is the Model of Mind Really Mechanistic?

It's fascinating to think that maybe we could, that the mind or computer or computer's minds, can we enter into virtual worlds, can we multiply our realities this way? It's exciting, but it's all based on a cataclysmic set of categories, created by this double narcissist effect. In relation to why functionalism doesn't work, actually, one of the questions I had was regarding the particular kind of political stakes of the model of mind. The question of freedom in the idea of the mind, the question of will and freedom, is a question which can get lost in terms of how we try to map out the mind in terms of computation.

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