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willy_ktoday at 3:08 PM3 repliesview on HN

Sure, if you take a materialist empiricist perspective, which is myopic at best. As humans we have the unique and wonderful ability to know truths by themselves. Machines do not have minds, and they can not.


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ooloncoloophidtoday at 3:17 PM

What position are you taking? (Genuine question.) Do you believe humans are conscious because of a special property we have? If you are a dualist, how do you explain the interaction in physical space between the non-physical special property and the physical brain?

vidarhtoday at 3:34 PM

You have absolutely no evidence for any of these assertions. This is a religious belief in the total absence of evidence, not science.

rcxdudetoday at 3:26 PM

Good luck convincing others of these truths you know without evidence or argument, though.