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

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Artificial Intelligence Has Immaterial Souls

I'm speaking to people who accept substance dualism or something like that about human persons and then raising the question how, how confident should we be that the same would be true about functionally human like artificial intelligences. First of all, this is all conditional upon the assumption that we yourselves have immaterial souls of course that's controversial a lot of people reject that setting those issues aside right now basically I'm saying if you create an AI that was implemented via a detailed simulation of a human brain it can perform any behavioral task at least at the human level. So first of all it behaves in kind of human like ways but when it comes to their low level material constitution they're very different from us

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