[lbo-talk] Angier: Plants Don't Want to Die Either

[Eubulides]

On 09-12-22 05:04 AM, Chris Doss wrote:
> This all depends on the notions that 1) mental activity is really physical activity and 2) the medium in which that activity is carried out doesn't matter (so neuronal activity, chemical reactions, giant arrangements of pulleys and horse-drawn carts can all produce mental acitivity). This is a dogma that is especially important for people who believe in strong AI, but there's little reason to think it's true.

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Really? Tell that to Charles Birch, Galen Strason, all the 
neo-Whiteheadian process panexperientalists, not to mention the acolytes 
of Jainism, who don't rely on AI paradigms for their hypotheses and 
you'll get howls of laughter.