[ExI] The Problem of Mental Causation

[Adrian Tymes]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM Jason Resch <jasonresch at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> Some human brains express, through language, an attitude that they are
>> automatons.
>>
>
> Could you define what you mean by an automaton? Do you mean something that
> is not conscious?
>

That is what they mean.  Such folks generally avoid considering exactly
what it is they think they are, perhaps to avoid the cognitive dissonance
that would result from having to acknowledge that they are having precisely
the kind of deep thoughts and introspection that automatons notably lack.

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