Comment by sarchertech
13 hours ago
I don’t think the OP is discussing mind-body dualism. There are many materialists who believe that consciousness maybe a non-computational process.
But it is worth pointing out that something like 80% of the world (it fluctuates depending on the survey but its around that) believes in some non-physical spirit, life force, or soul.
It’s a very HN bubble thing to start a discussion with the assumption that everyone must be a materialist.
I acknowledge and understand that many people believe in the existence of souls. But I hope they just say it rather than try to wrap the concepts in layers of jargons.
Again I don’t think the person you were talking to was doing that.
But one of the reasons that people might do that is because on a forum like hacker news they’ll be attacked as a lunatic. Just look at some of the comments on this article. I saw one where someone said that dualism is so ridiculous that it can’t even be considered philosophy.