>Carroll wasn't even making an argument. He merely stated a claim with no evidence, nor with any indication of understanding how many of the very terms he deployed have shifted their meanings over the last 25-30 years. One simple example; there is nothing in so-called strong AI that is inconsistent with any materialist ontology on offer from academic philosophers or scientists.<
again, I was trying to get people to stop pulling academic rank, as it were. Elitism is ridiculous. JD