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aledevvtoday at 8:45 AM2 repliesview on HN

> ..idea anticipated centuries ago by the philosopher Baruch Spinoza: that our Soul could be a phenomenon of the same basic nature as any other phenomenon in nature.

Even the current Artificial Intelligence revolution is showing us that:

what was thought to be purely immaterial and intangible, that is, human abstract Reasoning and Thoughts, are actually tangible, physical, and even machine-reproducible.


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mort96today at 8:48 AM

Was reasoning thought to be immaterial and intangible..? By whom? Materialism has been alive and well for a long time from what I can tell

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unparagonedtoday at 8:50 AM

In the original paper about the hard problem, Chalmers does say all that stuff is explainable by science or the easy problems.