Anil Seth's paper rejects Chalmers' neural replacement argument, critics say dodges paradoxes
yeastsplainer · x · 2026-10-12
A philosophy-of-consciousness debate continues: the poster excerpts Anil Seth's paper showing he rejects Chalmers' 'neural replacement' thought experiment, but argue he never addresses the resulting consciousness paradoxes or the infeasibility-based argument. The excerpt also covers Block's circularity critique and Godfrey-Smith's point that metabolic constraints and electromagnetic fields would make a silicon-replaced system behave differently.
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