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Life, Intelligence, and Consciousness: A Functional Perspective longnow.org Aug 27, 2025 3 facts
perspectiveRené Descartes argued that human and nonhuman animal bodies are mechanical, but humans possess souls that provide higher functions like intelligence and consciousness, whereas machines are soulless.
claimThe argument that machines cannot be intelligent because they are too abstract and the argument that they cannot be intelligent because they are too material both imply that subjective experience relies on something mysterious and ineffable, such as a soul or mental processes.
claimRené Descartes' position that nonhuman animals and machines are equivalent is no longer popular among most scientists.
Neurodiversity in Practice: a Conceptual Model of Autistic Strengths ... link.springer.com Jul 25, 2023 2 facts
claimCommon preferred interests among autistic individuals include sciences, history, culture, animals, information and mechanical systems, machines, and technology.
claimCommon preferred interests among autistic individuals include sciences, history, culture, animals, information and mechanical systems, machines, and technology.
Episode 2: The Hard Problem of Consciousness – David Chalmers ... futurepointdigital.substack.com Jul 24, 2025 2 facts
claimDavid Chalmers entertains the possibility that machines could be conscious if they instantiate the right kind of information processing, regardless of whether they are biological.
claimDavid Chalmers and Audrey argue that the ethical consequences of whether machines can be conscious or only simulate consciousness are enormous.
Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Aug 19, 2003 1 fact
perspectiveRené Descartes held a mechanistic view of matter, asserting that bodies function as machines according to their own laws, except when influenced by minds.
Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Consciousness and the Intermediate ... frontiersin.org Apr 17, 2018 1 fact
referenceDehaene, S., Lau, H., and Kouider, S. (2017) authored 'What is consciousness, and could machines have it?', published in Science, 358, 486–492.
(PDF) Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness - Academia.edu academia.edu 1 fact
referenceJohn S. Lucas anticipated Roger Penrose's argument regarding mind and machines in his 1961 paper 'Mind, Machines and Gödel'.