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RE: Why I Don't Believe in the Singularity.
Very interesting.
But: "The fact that humans exist to write or read this article is proof that there's a particular way you can put atoms together such that the result will be conscious. "
Your statement takes physicalism for granted,and is therefore a fallacy.
Not because physicalism is necessarily false,although that is my firm conviction.
But because you assume physicalism in a sentence that you then take to support physicalism.
Circular reasoning.
It is self-evident, unless you deny that I and other humans exist, or that we're made of matter.
Have you solved the problem of interaction yet?
I did not mean to attack you personally.
Physicalism is not self evident,and there are many versions of physicalism each with their own problems.
Here is one reference to read up on the subject:
http://consc.net/papers/facing.html
And there is no interaction probblem if you are not a dualist.
I am not a dualist.
And I do not deny the existence of other people, I am not a solipsist. I don´t deny the existence of matter either.
I do deny that "we´re made of matter" because my consciousness is not made of matter,and my consciousness is what makes me a person. To have consciousness is to experience.
There is nothing in the description of physical reality that accounts for the existence of consciousness.
Claiming otherwise is not based on facts, but on dogmatic belief.