#philosophy

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• A Voice From Nowhere zanlib on Leo XIV's encyclical: generated work copies the form of thought, not the path under it
• Hard Problem of Consciousness David Chalmers' 1994 framing of consciousness as having two distinct problems, and Rovelli's case that the "hard" problem is a category error
• Moral Agency vs Moral Patienthood The distinction between something owed moral consideration and something accountable for its actions, applied to LLMs — Chiang's claim that a software agent can be neither
• Philosophical Zombies Chalmers' thought experiment of a being physically identical to a human but without inner experience, and Rovelli's self-defeat objection
• Programming as Theory Building Naur's 1985 thesis that the primary product of programming is the team's shared mental model; code, docs, and tests are artifacts in service of that theory
• There Is No Hard Problem of Consciousness Carlo Rovelli's argument that Chalmers' "hard problem" smuggles in dualism upfront; the soul is part of nature, not separate from it
• You Should Read "Programming as Theory Building" CodeUtopia on Naur's 1985 essay; programming is building a shared mental theory of the program, with code, docs, and tests as artifacts of that theory