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by dasil003
1534 days ago
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Very well said. I've also observed a certain irony that many of the proponents of a materialist/computational view on philosophy of the mind have a very strong faith-based bias to see the world a certain way, versus acknowledging the very likely possibility that our limitations as meat-things may make it very difficult if not impossible to fully grok the nature of reality or consciousness in a general sense. |
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If we do in fact construct androids that are functionally indistinguishable from humans, it's solid circumstantial evidence for the materialist view (though not a pure slam dunk, per the p-zombie concept).
Until something like that occurs, the strongest case you can make against a transcendent meta-reality is "no one has demonstrated any reliably reproducible evidence of the supernatural."
That's a fine, solid argument for not believing in the supernatural, but it's not a great one for pronouncing that there is no such thing.