The Death of The Soul https://signsandscience.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-death-of-soul.html
> On 24-Jan-2024, at 8:16 AM, Samiya Illias <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The greatest loss that a person can suffer is the permanent loss of their > soul in the Hereafter (Q39:15-20). Such people will consciously suffer in > Hell, neither living nor dying (Q35:36). > >>> On 24-Jan-2024, at 5:32 AM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> >> >> >> Stathis Papaioannou >> >> >>> On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 at 11:10, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:46 AM Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>>> On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 at 10:01, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 5:51 PM Stathis Papaioannou >>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> > There is yet another level, phenomenal consciousness, which has no >>>>>>> > behavioural manifestations whatsoever, allowing for the theoretical >>>>>>> > possibility of philosophical zombies. >>>>>> >>>>>> Assuming that is true and assuming that you yourself are not a >>>>>> philosophical zombie, how do you suppose random mutation and natural >>>>>> selection manage to produce you? >>>>> >>>>> It couldn't, which supports the idea that philosophical zombies are >>>>> impossible, or equivalently that phenomenal consciousness reduces to the >>>>> behavioural manifestations of consciousness, such as awareness of self >>>>> and environment. >>>> >>>> In fasct, it supports the idea that philosophical zombies could not be >>>> produced by natural (Darwinian) selection. But it say nothing about the >>>> possibility that such beings could be produced artificially; eg. via AI. >>> >>> That is strictly true, but it would entail that consciousness is some sort >>> of side-effect peculiar to organic chemistry (or whatever the special >>> ingredient is), and not a consequence of intelligent behaviour. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAH%3D2ypV0L4WE%3DeryNjy_%3Dj7FZ%3DRFkw09AdVEPxVCjFQVwBaoQw%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/15E60B0B-8664-4047-955E-E4E5EAD2BE8D%40gmail.com.
