I am and this seems to be a very rare trait. What's interesting is the relevant reasoning traces are not long or hard. "If you damage the brain the phenomenon of the soul weakens, if you damage discrete parts of the brain it weakens in specific ways, therefore the soul is made of physical parts".

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@jdp.extropian.net I'm sympathetic to the argument about free will below, but the argument re: facts of atoms and the brain's effect on behavior doesn't imply substrate independence. You can be a materialist and still believe that a spreadsheet containing a complete model of the brain is not conscious, just like it wouldn't be wet if you used it for weather prediction.
I don't find that position particularly unintuitive.

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