'Minds aren't physical' claim gets a rebuttal: Minecraft is a program on my computer
NathanpmYoung · x · 2026-09-04
Plinz argued that minds, like Minecraft, are not physical and cannot exist in the physical universe, and that physics says nothing meaningful about consciousness.
NathanpmYoung calls this a 'deepness arbitrage' — using ambiguous terms to imply transcendence — and rebuts it plainly: Minecraft does exist in the physical universe as a program on his computer, so why couldn't his mind likewise be a program running on his brain?
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