> subjective experience and agency, amongst other things
In other words, souls? I'm sorry if that sounds accusing, but to me it sounds like you're talking about souls that are independent to the physical world, just with more 'scientific-y' wording.
(I fully understand that some people believe souls exist.)
As other commenters pointed out, I'm not getting into the mind/body problem.
But that's what people normally do: you challenge the assumptions, and all of a sudden they assume you are already coming to a conclusion.
And no, just because I challenge the assumptions, I don't need to provide a counter conclusion.
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.
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