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[-] polonius-rex@kbin.run 11 points 2 months ago

but you could birth a new person who didn't fit that finite number

there will always be a hypothetical new person who could exist

[-] jlou@mastodon.social 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There are finite number of possible humans due to there being a finite number of states a brain can be in.

There is an argument for moral realism that takes advantage of finiteness and computability of mental processes to show that there could be an objective morality

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[-] polonius-rex@kbin.run 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

a finite number of states a brain can be in

there are infinite ways to arrange and configure finite neurons

computability of mental processes

are mental processes entirely computable though? you kind of run into a halting-problem-style issue because if you can compute your response to anything that should imply that you can never make a decision that surprises the computation. but if you feed knowledge of the computation's result into your decision making process you can just pick the opposite

[-] Zadig@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago

there are infinite ways to arrange and configure finite neurons

hm? i don't see how this is true at all. a finite of anything in a finite space can only have finite configurations.

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