I don’t like to say we don’t have souls. We do have bearers of identity and consciousness. They’re just not immortal, and they’re made of atoms. Or more accurately, they’re made of the data that the arrangement of atoms represents.
Is this any more than a semantic quibble?
No, but I think there are times that semantics matter.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/od/37_ways_that_words_can_be_wrong/
I don’t like to say we don’t have souls. We do have bearers of identity and consciousness. They’re just not immortal, and they’re made of atoms. Or more accurately, they’re made of the data that the arrangement of atoms represents.
Is this any more than a semantic quibble?
No, but I think there are times that semantics matter.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/od/37_ways_that_words_can_be_wrong/