Spirit := software that is regulating an autonomous system
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We treat words like soul, spirit, feeling, awareness, purpose, love as if a five-year-old can easily understand them, and as if the correct meaning lies at this level of understanding. However, they refer to complicated states of affairs and cannot be understood without thinking.
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It does not help that we just went through a historical period that discouraged thinking for over a millennium.
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Though to me “spirit” smells strongly of dualism for which there is not a shred of reproducible evidence.
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Our modern dualism may have been accidentally introduced during the enlightenment, by confusing our mental models of physical reality with the physical ground truth. Res extensa is not the physical universe, but a type of mental models. Spirits are part of a different type.
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