> Hypothesis 1: Human-level intelligence is possible because brains are biological machines.
> Rejecting hypothesis 1 would require either some supernatural ingredient behind our intelligence or rejecting computational functionalism, the hypothesis that our intelligence and even our consciousness can be boiled down to causal relationships and computations that at some level are independent of the hardware substrate, the basic hypothesis behind computer science and its notion of universal Turing machines.
I think I'm going to stop there. I can reject that hypothesis without woo, and without rejecting the entirety of computer science. Maybe the rest of it is a decent read, but that run-on argument is confused/dishonest and makes a poor foundation to build his position on.
> Rejecting hypothesis 1 would require either some supernatural ingredient behind our intelligence or rejecting computational functionalism, the hypothesis that our intelligence and even our consciousness can be boiled down to causal relationships and computations that at some level are independent of the hardware substrate, the basic hypothesis behind computer science and its notion of universal Turing machines.
I think I'm going to stop there. I can reject that hypothesis without woo, and without rejecting the entirety of computer science. Maybe the rest of it is a decent read, but that run-on argument is confused/dishonest and makes a poor foundation to build his position on.