/sci/ - Science & Math

All around you are people who will actively admit that they are unconscious beings with no soul, purpose, or bearing in the mental plane. Simply ask them: they'll fight against dualist philosophy with as much vigor as the top philosophers, denying the prospect of the self-evident soul an qualia (experience). They'll urge you to define things over and over, not accepting any definition of whatever word they want to split hairs about, and refuse to listen to any argument that implies that they are less than human.

Do not be fooled by deterministic NPCs who are unable to grasp the concept of the mind. Human Beings have free will, while probabilistic NPC automata are programmed specifically to find the highest likelihood outcome that will benefit themselves. You thought the fact that some people are unable to visualize things in their mind was unsettling? Guess what: those same personoids are no different from AI in terms of determining the next best course of action. Only less-than-human automata believe in physicalism/materialism.

If you are Human, they will ask you to "prove" that you are conscious when it is a self-evident fact. It would be like explaining a 3D shape to a creature stuck in two dimensions. They simply lack the faculties to comprehend such a thing because they do not experience the Mind.