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"Nowadays it is fashionable to believe that we have matter and we have information, and these two somehow work together.processes, etc. " - Atla This position seems to take on a more extreme or radical form: that matter actually is information. Or, more broadly, that "systems", ...

It could be that to some (there are almost zero self-described "relativists") relativism is simply a normative/moral/political theory or position; rather than a theory of truth. Philosophers like Richard Rorty and, in a roundabout way, even William James, came close to arguing that. In oth...

Hi Noax, For one, a Turing machine is a specific formal architecture, and DNA does not qualify. The article doesn't really state what a computer is. It states what some philosophers and others take it to be. Perhaps that's what you meant. DNA does have a "specific formal architecture". Whe...

My statement "sentience will be simulated.... because of computations" (above) doesn't make sense. I'm not sure how sentience can be simulated at all. Intelligence can be; though not experience/consciousness/sentience itself... Indeed there's an argument that if intelligence is simulated (...

The major stumbling block is the actual senses that a sentient intelligence experiences. These are not simply inputs 'computed' by a computer, they are actually something extremely hard to define. I'm not sure if many of those involved in artificial intelligence (or others) are always - or primaril...