if you’re a materialist dunking on Sam Altman for saying that a person boils down to a pattern of neural activity, what exactly do you think he’s getting wrong? or do you just think he’s gauche for stating something obvious?https://twitter.com/sama/status/1390059328741146625 …
It's a woefully incomplete argument. the onus is on the physicalist to articulate the grounding relationship between physical facts (which they claim are fundamental) and nonphysical facts (which obtain in virtue of the physical facts, somehow). Higher-order properties have (1/x)
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...to be "connected" somehow to the physical world but he doesn't even make a glancing attempt to say what this connection is, or what facts exist at which relative level of fundamentality. For example, is he committing himself to the view that the sentence (2/x)
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