There is no evidence that the structure and function of the human brain (along with its physical embodiment) is insufficient to explain all aspects of human intelligence and consciousness. Even if it was discovered that the physical brain fell short of accounting for all cognitive phenomena, and even if no other known physical system or process could account for it, and even if an immaterial soul was actually discovered somehow, it still wouldn’t imply that human intelligence could not be emulated.
There is no magic. All real phenomena are causally computable. An immaterial soul would be no exception. Even a non-physical conscious system would necessarily possess inner computational mechanisms that are themselves not conscious (e.g., “spiritual synapses”).
The only cop-out would be if the immaterial soul was performing necessary computations so vast that they could not be performed on a physical computer the size of Earth within a human lifespan (therefore necessitating a non-physical computational substrate that is not bound by physical constraints on memory density and processing speed). There is no evidence of this.
You have too high a view of human-level intelligence and consciousness. We are in fact intellectual bottom-feeders in the vast ocean of possible mind-space. And that’s even accounting for physical limits on computational power.
Intelligibility is not evidence for intelligent design. It is evidence for a low-entropy system, which has a far higher prior probability than a supernatural Intelligentsia.
There is no evidence that the structure and function of the human brain (along with its physical embodiment) is insufficient to explain all aspects of human intelligence and consciousness.
There is no evidence that the structure and function of the human brain (along with its physical embodiment) is insufficient to explain all aspects of human intelligence and consciousness. Even if it was discovered that the physical brain fell short of accounting for all cognitive phenomena, and even if no other known physical system or process could account for it, and even if an immaterial soul was actually discovered somehow, it still wouldn’t imply that human intelligence could not be emulated.
There is no magic. All real phenomena are causally computable. An immaterial soul would be no exception. Even a non-physical conscious system would necessarily possess inner computational mechanisms that are themselves not conscious (e.g., “spiritual synapses”).
The only cop-out would be if the immaterial soul was performing necessary computations so vast that they could not be performed on a physical computer the size of Earth within a human lifespan (therefore necessitating a non-physical computational substrate that is not bound by physical constraints on memory density and processing speed). There is no evidence of this.
You have too high a view of human-level intelligence and consciousness. We are in fact intellectual bottom-feeders in the vast ocean of possible mind-space. And that’s even accounting for physical limits on computational power.
Intelligibility is not evidence for intelligent design. It is evidence for a low-entropy system, which has a far higher prior probability than a supernatural Intelligentsia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness