I mean, now you do sound like a metaphysical dualist.
Do I? I’d say that things I’ve describe as “real unreals” are abstraction layers on top of consciousness. They’re real in a sense that you’re experiencing them and that they can be composed into something like “culture”, but they don’t exist as a separate “plane of existance” (which is what I thought dualism implies). I’d say they’re all subjective and not objective truths of the world.
Maybe I’m just thinking about dualism wrong 
So this is where I really have to challenge you because I think you have drawn this line fairly arbitrarily.
I’ll try to think how to better describe distinction between the two. Maybe my previous description of “abstraction layers on top of consciousness” is more useful here. I didn’t think about it in quiet some time (good that this conversation happened and gave me something to think about again). I guess I’ll let my thoughts on the topic marinate a bit.
I hate to see attempts at philosophy shut down because they are not “provable”
No disagreement here. I’m only opposed to dragging religious concepts (like soul) into such conversations as I think that they’re much more loaded and they’re not useful nor necessary here. Other than that I’m very much interested in discussions of self consciousness of AI, moral/ethical side of AI usage (like at what point if any do we grant the thing any rights) and anything around it.
