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You are here		opentheory.net Against functionalism: why I think the Foundational Research Institute should rethink its approach - Opentheory.net
\|	\|	qri.org Digital Sentience Requires Solving the Boundary Problem	10.2 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	Digital computers will remain unconscious until they recruit physical fields for holistic computing using well-defined topological boundaries.	10.2 parsecs away Travel
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\|	\|	Digital computers will remain unconscious until they recruit physical fields for holistic computing using well-defined topological boundaries.	10.1 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	qualiacomputing.com Why I think the Foundational Research Institute should rethink its approach \| Qualia Computing	0.7 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	by Mike Johnson The following is my considered evaluation of the Foundational Research Institute, circa July 2017. I discuss its goal, where I foresee things going wrong with how it defines suffering, and what it could do to avoid these problems. TL;DR version: functionalism ("consciousness is the sum-total of the functional properties of our brains")...	0.7 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	yandoo.wordpress.com The death of philosophy? \| The Logical Place	64.0 parsecs away Travel
\|		by Joanne Benhamu (This essay was published as a Letter to the Editor of The Skepticmagazine,March 2019, Vol 39 No 1) The philosophy versus science debate has filled the pages of this magazine for some time now, with Gary Bakker1,2 and Ian Bryce3 heaping scorn and derision on the discipline of philosophy. Both claim that...	64.0 parsecs away Travel