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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I am not sure your PhD friend understands what a neuron actually is. [/quote]

Why not actually critique the point PP made?  That way we can resolve your doubts.  :)

[b]Do *you* understand what a neuron actually is?[/b][/quote]

Certainly not!  I am just a mom.  I have no expertise whatsoever on neurons.  But PP said the replacement would "conduct electricity" like the neuron.  My limited understanding is that neurons #1  do more than conduct electrical impulses  and #2  are living cells, with immense complexity.

But to address the (limited and unfinished) point the PP made:

That philosophical hypothetical does not pose an actual problem for either the materialist or the theist.  If you believe in materialism, there is no more to a human being than matter.  If there were a way to switch out inorganic matter for organic, it is actually all the same.  Human beings are just particles--that is all they are.  The living material humans are comprised of evolved from non-living material, and that is all that there is.  So if the day came that we could switch back and forth, well, that's just what the universe does on its own anyway.

But the theist would not be troubled, either, in this highly hypothetical scenario.  Because theists believe in a material universe AND an immaterial universe.  The laws that rule matter, and energy, and force, and DNA, are all within their own system, the material universe.  Immaterial things are different.

So, what is the philosopher piecing together?  Artificial intelligence?

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