alt Hacker News> They don't have the hardware to have metaphysical dualism and therefore no mind to mentally be aware of.
Somehow this sentence is self-contradictory, but I can't quite lay my finger on the exact spot.
> They don't have the hardware to have metaphysical dualism and therefore no mind to mentally be aware of.
Somehow this sentence is self-contradictory, but I can't quite lay my finger on the exact spot.
The contradiction is the notion of having hardware to support metaphysical dualism. It's an oxymoron.
I think what they're actually trying to say is that the physical reality of LLMs doesn't leave any metaphysical space for dualism, which is required in their view for "mind". Ed: or maybe not, based on their other comments.