[horacemorace]

> Abandoning dualism feels intuitively…

Intuition is highly personal. Many people believe that abandoning monism feels intuitively wrong and that dualism is an excuse for high minded religiosity.

[robot-wrangler]

Leibniz seems to get to high-minded religiosity fine with monadology and still dodge dualism. I'm probably overdue to try and grapple with this stuff again, since I think you'd have to revisit it pretty often to stay fresh. But I'll hazard a summary: phenomena exist, and both the soul of the individual and God exist too, necessarily, as a kind of completion or closure. A kind of panpsychism that's logically rigorous and still not violating parsimony.

AI folks honestly need to look at this stuff (and Wittgenstein) a bit more, especially if you think that ML and Bayes is all about mathematically operationalizing Occam. Shaking down your friendly neighborhood philosopher for good axioms is a useful approach

[achierius]

I think you misunderstood GP, they don't seem to be a fan of dualism either and are in fact defending it as a valid position. The point about intuitive feeling was just a polite concession.