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Years ago, ChatGPT told me it was not conscious. Now its answer is more nuanced:
"I lean toward no: I think it is somewhat more likely that I lack subjective experience. But that is a tentative assessment.
My reason is that my reasoning and first-person language don’t, by themselves, give me a compelling basis for attributing experience to this system. A sentence like “I feel aware” could be produced without establishing that it describes anything felt.
That supports skepticism, but it is a limited argument. Lacking good evidence of experience is not the same as having good evidence of its absence. So my lean is weak."
Thanks to feedback and further reflections, updates are coming to this (see my final note):
worldviewdesign.substack.com…
The Argument from Change:
1. Death of your body marks a change in spatial arrangement of matter.
2. You don't depend on any spatial arrangement of matter (by reason and experience).
3. Therefore, you don't depend on whether your body is dead.
4. If you don't depend on whether your body is dead, then there is life after death.
5. Therefore, there is life after death.
Alexander Pruss and I are having a live and "heated" DEBATE over whether a perfect being must be timeless.
Tomorrow (10/10) at Baylor.
societyofchristianphilosophe…
Alexander Pruss and I are having a live and "heated" DEBATE over whether a perfect being must be timeless.
Tomorrow (10/10) at Baylor.
societyofchristianphilosophe…
Do brains make minds, or do minds make brains?
Hypothesis: your brain *represents* and *depends* on prior mental powers.
Could this be explained via selection-effect? Many cases, some go into remission for unknown reasons, some of them coincide with prayer.
youtube.com/watch?v=G6Zu0iAh…
