Math and Logic Cannot Create Minds
To put the point another way: Nobody expects a computer simulation of a hurricane to generate real wind and real rain. In the same way, a computer model of the brain may only ever simulate consciousness, but never give rise to it.
But is there any algorithm in the huge realm of mathematics that contains a subjective experience? So far, we don’t know of any such algorithm.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
Past philosophers have taken this observation and run with it, arguing that minds and brains are fundamentally distinct and separate phenomena. This is the view the philosopher Gilbert Ryle called “the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine.”1 But modern scientists and philosophers who have rejected dualism haven’t necessarily replaced it with a better
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