Literally just mainlining marketing material straight into whatever’s left of their rotting brains.

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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How very crude and reductionist just like the source comment says.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I'm having a hard time understanding your reasoning and perspective on this. My interpretation of your comments is that you believe biological intelligence is a special phenomenon that cannot be understood by the scientific method. If I'm in error, I'd welcome a correction.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 2 years ago

    Biological intelligence is currently not understood. This has nothing to do with distinguishing between “living” and “non-living” matter. Brains and suitcases are also both made of matter. It’s a meaningless observation.

    The question is what causes sentience. Arguing that brains are computers because they’re both made of matter is a non-sequitur. We don’t even know what mechanism causes sentience so there’s no point in even beginning to make comparisons to a separate mechanism. It plays into a trend of equating the current most popular technology to the brain. There was no basis for it then, and there’s no basis for it now.

    Nobody here is arguing about what the brain is made of.

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