I've started to watch this per your recommendation and one question that popped into my mind with the first few classes, is how does this theory of dualism that differs the soul from the body, withstands the ChatGPT era, where computers start to show signs of consciousness. ie- If consciousness is also a matter of physical matter that can be replicated by machines, is the human soul a real spiritual thing, or created by physical connections in the brain, which is recently simulated by vector and by the amount of parameters in the model.
I wrote something about consciousness as the result of computation (an idea I'm sure is not new, and somewhat related to attention schema theory, even if I disagree with the author of that on determinism), it's a little bit of a mess as I setup the assumptions, but I still think gets the idea across (as did Shelly to some degree, though his primary interest was the implication for the value of such a life, which I continue to fail entirely to make sense of in the continued text, which I don't recommend reading).
You might find it interesting because Shellys lectures inspired me a lot when writing it, and because it touches on the same subject as your are thinking about.
