• Squorlple@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 month ago

    I’ve already been a necessitarian for years. I’m sentient, and no matter how much abstract personification you assign to data, they remain non-sentient. Sentience is the difference between a “soul” and the lack thereof.

    the analog world … not actually analog

    This obvious contradiction and the following cosmic platitude evoke motivational speakers or preachers, each who’d want me to join their little club that gives them money.

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      I’ve already been a necessitarian for years. I’m sentient, and no matter how much abstract personification you assign to data, they remain non-sentient. Sentience is the difference between a “soul” and the lack thereof.

      So you believe in magic, and that people have magic souls that are special, and you reject the mountains of evidence showing that our thoughts are physical processes taking place in our brains?

      This obvious contradiction and the following cosmic platitude evoke motivational speakers or preachers, each who’d want me to join their little club that gives them money.

      It’s not an obvious contradiction, nor the beginning of a cult, it’s literally just physics: https://medium.com/the-infinite-universe/hearing-the-shape-of-the-drum-how-space-and-time-may-be-both-discrete-and-continuous-d540c223d29d