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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There is no way out of computationalism for a dualist, because computation is an a priori concept, i.e. it does not require physics but covers all possible systems with discernible differences that are capable of deterministic, probabilistic or random change.
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Why must the dualist accept computationalism is an a priori precondition on the possibility of everything else? Why not just on the possibility of the physical substrate?
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Hmm it *might* entail computational interaction between the two domains, but why does it entail the mental domain is itself computational?
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Because minds hold state, and the state changes in a regular fashion, so all observations we can make about them can be and must be generated by system capable of regular state change. Whatever else characterizes the mental domain, that makes it computational.
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