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ChristianKl comments on What if Strong AI is just not possible? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 01 January 2014 06:48:35PM -1 points [-]

The only explanation I could think of is that there's actually something like souls and those souls are important for reasoning.

Comment author: Antiochus 02 January 2014 03:00:19PM 6 points [-]

In that case, research will just need to discover the necessary properties of soul-attracting substrate.

Comment author: mwengler 02 January 2014 08:38:15PM 0 points [-]

Exactly. Souls are no more essentially supernatural than was radiation. It wasn't known before Marie Curie, and afterwards it became known and was characterized.