Recent content by John_Mann

12 Monkeys

Materialist vitriol at its best. I disagree therefore I hate.

This is a variation of the "in the next 30 years" cultish thinking. Will you change your mind if a molecular-level human brain model running into an exascale computer fail to produce a human mind?

I never said that. Just the opposite. Catholics believe that humans are not ghosts locked in a physical body. Human nature is destined to be the eternal union of spiritual soul and physical body. There's an obvious correlation between human mind and the brain. The soul is not the totality of the...

The correlation between material hardware and immaterial software is total. So software is physical. The correlation between human mind and brain is not total. Consciousness is a function of a thing (metaphysical soul). That's the problem with materialism/physicalism/scientism. They...

That's the ultimate experiment about matter vs mind. If materialism is correct that's exactly the result. But considering materialism is philosophically flawed I bet it will be empirically flawed too.

Physicalism is a joke in philosophy for a long time. I'm not appealing to ignorance regarding physicalism. Physicalism is logically flawed because states "everything is physical". But this very statement is metaphysical (monistic ontology). That's why (eliminative) materialists deny the...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_impossibility Like what? Be more specific. The mirror test and the spot test are very controversial. http://m.nautil.us/blog/when-does-a-consciousness-test-not-test-for-consciousness

I think Julian Jaynes made the best definition of consciousness.

Would be confirmation bias if I was avoiding the attempts to eliminate my position. But I'm doing the opposite. I'm very interested in the exascale computing and the Blue Brain Project and BRAIN. Naturally similar or better non human brains are empirical evidence that only fancy...

Yes I'm a "consciousness is not physical" fundamentalist. But I'm interested in the effort to try to build a consciousness. I just making a prediction or bet that it's an impossibility. I don't think trying to achieve consciousness is a waste of time because more sophisticated failures only...

If consciousness is physical then we could reach it without trying to replicate the human brain. Nature already has brains with the same complexity (or very similar or more complex) of human brain but there's no similar mind. If consciousness is so trivial to physical world why the internet...

https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer

Catholicism is an Eastern religion that also encompasses Judaism and mesopotamian lost religions. The account of creation is entirely from Mesopotamia for instance. I don't know any concept of reincarnation without karma (as cause and effect) being involved. Reincarnation itself can't be...

Do you really believe that we can retrieve the memory of your first kiss by scanning your brain?