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rhubarbtreeyesterday at 11:48 PM1 replyview on HN

Are humans not machines?


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sarchertechtoday at 12:33 AM

That’s something that more than half of humans would disagree with (exact numbers vary but most polls show that more than 75% of people globally believe that humans have a soul or spirit).

But ignoring that, if humans are machines, they are sufficiently advanced machines that we have only a very modest understanding of and no way to replicate. Our understanding of ourselves is so limited that we might as well be magic.

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