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surreal wrote

even so, why does this prevent the existence of consciousness. in eastern philosophy even rocks have it. do you believe that animals have consciousness?

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ziq OP wrote (edited )

it just has some pre-set rules for organising symbols

That's basically what humans do. Our behaviours are completely predictable, as if our responses to stimuli are hard-coded into us. Experience X + Stimuli A = Reaction XA.

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ziq OP wrote

not a very respectable position

Really dumai? I'm not some philosophy grad, do you have to be so elitist? Idk wtf hard determinism is but it sounds like insular thinking along the lines of "a bunch of distinguished gentleman philosophers I've studied would scoff at your thoughts so they're not worth my time". You often use very condescending language to communicate and it almost feels classist.

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