I differ from Rob in that I do think his piece should have flagged the assumption of ~computationalism, but think the assumption is reasonable enough to not have argued for in this piece.
I do think it is interesting philosophical discussion to hash it out, for the sake of rigor and really pushing for clarity. I’m sad that I don’t think I could dive in deep on the topic right now.
To answer your question in your other comment. I reckon with some time I could write an explainer for why we should very reasonable assume consciousness is the result of local brain stuff and nothing else (and also not quantum stuff), though I’d be surprised if I could easily write something so rigorous that you’d find it fully satisfactory.
I differ from Rob in that I do think his piece should have flagged the assumption of ~computationalism, but think the assumption is reasonable enough to not have argued for in this piece.
I do think it is interesting philosophical discussion to hash it out, for the sake of rigor and really pushing for clarity. I’m sad that I don’t think I could dive in deep on the topic right now.
To answer your question in your other comment. I reckon with some time I could write an explainer for why we should very reasonable assume consciousness is the result of local brain stuff and nothing else (and also not quantum stuff), though I’d be surprised if I could easily write something so rigorous that you’d find it fully satisfactory.