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.
Cartesian dualism assumed that the material world consists of stuff in space; we can now reduce that to dynamic patterns of information that can be approximately (but not fully) projected into a space. (Space is virtual.)
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The mental domain is one of software as well; even if our minds would use our bodies as avatars and mental and physical domain were implemented on fundamentally different substrates, we are looking at two domains that are necessarily and sufficiently computational.
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