Just had one if these long discussions with a smart mathematician, and now I notice that sometimes I get the impression that computationalism (the only working philosophical edifice left) is non-obvious to 90% of people. I find that genuinely puzzling.
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Paraphrasing “dualism…seems to require a computational foundation” as “dualism seems to deductively entail a computational foundation” I'd be interested to see your sketch of a deduction
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Epistemologically, both domains will present themselves via discernible differences, must hold state, and progress in a probabilistic or deterministic fashion. If a domain is symbolic instead of mechanist, it will need an implementation somewhere.
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