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I think I’m bad at categorizing different strains of dualism because I tend to dismiss the whole enterprise without giving a fair amount of consideration.

I figure brains are amazing and we may never understand how they work very well. But nobody needed to understand intelligence for it to occur in humans. Evolution is a crude optimization mechanism that brute-forced the problem over millions of years with biology as a substrate. Computers are a worse substrate in some important ways. However, we have some incredibly fast optimization mechanisms available to us when we train models (and of course we aren’t limited to a single chip).

I’m hand-waving at the inner workings of intelligence and don’t claim to understand it at all. Given my belief that meat computers can do it without any grand design, I don’t see any reason to think that silicon computers won’t be able to do the same.

Now, if you believe that consciousness and/or intelligence requires some kind of intangible soul, and such souls are hard to come by, of course you won’t find one on the rack in an H100.