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Michael's referencing this other post linked from this post

Why do you think Turing-completeness is necessary for sentience?

AIUI the mind being something other than an irreducible entity is a fundamental principle of Buddhism (this is part of the anatta ("not-self") concept)

How is dualism necessarily nonreductive? Materialism says everything is reducible to fundamental interacting physical components, whereas dualism says everything is reducible to fundamental interacting physical and mental/spiritual components.

Our attitudes toward people with marginal conditions mainly reflect a deontologist libertarian (libertarian as in "free will", not as in "against government") model of blame. In this concept, people make decisions using their free will, a spiritual entity operating free from biology or circumstance. People who make good decisions are intrinsically good people and deserve good treatment; people who make bad decisions are intrinsically bad people and deserve bad treatment. But people who make bad decisions for reasons that are outside of

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I'd call it ad hominem

Never read the comments section. No exceptions.

... says a post in a comments section

... assuming they aren't lying about how their biology works

But what if you're hallucinating the increase in mental capacity and resulting discernment?

4MTGandP
It may be theoretically possible to increase my mental capacity in some way such that I can distinguish mental capacity from hallucination. I cannot conceive of how that would be done, but it may be possible. P.S. I love when people reply to comments that are two and a half years old. It feels like we're talking to the past.

I was reading "accurate" as "describes what is true", not "describes what is observed".

What does "TAWME" mean?

4Richard_Kennaway
"This Agrees With My Experience".