Same with computer programs. The LLM example is more compelling because they act a lot more like a human soul.
If you wanted to use the words that way, you could say that humans have a soul in the same sense that computer programs are real things, independent of the computers they’re run on. That is, there’s something that’s immaterial and not bound to one physical substrate, even in a materialist worldview.
Same with computer programs. The LLM example is more compelling because they act a lot more like a human soul.
If you wanted to use the words that way, you could say that humans have a soul in the same sense that computer programs are real things, independent of the computers they’re run on. That is, there’s something that’s immaterial and not bound to one physical substrate, even in a materialist worldview.