Spirit := software that is regulating an autonomous system
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Replying to @Plinz
Why use “the S word” that is “spirit” a good word to retire. Carries way too much metaphysical baggage.
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Replying to @jim_rutt
I find the idea that many words that have been in use for millennia refer to useful and adequate models enticing. The word 'spirit' came up in a world where the only autonomous robots were organisms and their organizations, and it may have had a precise meaning that we forgot.
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Replying to @Plinz
Though to me “spirit” smells strongly of dualism for which there is not a shred of reproducible evidence.
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Replying to @jim_rutt
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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Eg, we think of our bodies as more real than of our selfs. Yet our bodies are not physical entities, they are constructs that are maintained via the somatosensory cortex. When people experience body dysphoria, they may even surgically alter their physiognomy.
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