Re: [sl4] Re: goals of AI

From: Matt Paul (lizardblue@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Dec 01 2009 - 07:44:49 MST


On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:35 AM, John K Clark <johnkclark@fastmail.fm> wrote:

>
> >>Not true as even the briefest discussion of personal identity will
> >>quickly make apparent, and this is true of every transhuman list I've
> >>ever seen for the last decade; you'd think they of all people would know
> >>better but unfortunately that is not the case. Of course they'd rather
> >>eat ground glass than use the word "soul" but that's exactly what
> >>they're talking about.
>
Is it possible that the reason you think they are just talking about the
soul is because that is the only way you can define it and your mind won't
reject it? But that really they are talking about something else?



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