hereby the term biopsychism is born. @De_dicto do you approve? as in, a term for the biological realizer / vehicle view for phenomenal C (contra functionalism / representationalism). (i always find "physicalist view" potentially misleading; the others aren't dualist / idealists)https://twitter.com/VictorLamme/status/1258855709623693325 …
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so Evan, you're saying, there could be living robots (having achieved 'alive' status via multiple realization) that are conscious. & there could be silicon-based brains that are conscious (compositional plasticity). but neither is truly non-living. so biopsychism is fine. yes?
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Yes. I don't see why you can't in principle build artificial brains & bodies, but they'd have to be autonomous (in Varela's technical sense), & I doubt that's achievable except through metabolic means (though the cells might be materially different from known Earth cells)
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I think I agree, and that this unpacks my hunches here:https://twitter.com/NeuroYogacara/status/1259307244283404288?s=20 …
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@NeuroYogacara then now i get your point which i missed yesterday. so basically u r saying if u mimic the bio functions artificially, to the point it can really do the same jobs, u'd end up having a system that is artificially alive. so nothing non-living can do these jobs. yes? - 7 more replies
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