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by yters 2785 days ago
The implication requires a further premise that the mind is reducible to the brain, which we do not know to be true.
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Not just the brain, but the whole body and, even more generally, to phenomena that can be described by physics. Unless you are trying to argue for a non-physical (i.e. magical) soul, the argument is sound.
Right, why assume the mind reduces to physics? This is usually how people argue for AGI being inevitable, but assuming the mind reduces to physics is a big assumption. Perhaps we have a physical soul.
Why not? Everything so far had been reduced to physics; sometimes to at-the-time undiscovered physics.