On Jul 12, 11:50 pm, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My view of awareness is now subtractive and holographic (think pinhole > camera), so that I would read fading qualia in a different way. More > like dementia.. attenuating connectivity between different aspects of > the self, not changing qualia necessarily. The brain might respond to > the implanted chips, even ruling out organic rejection, the native > neurology may strengthen it's remaining connections and attempt to > compensate for the implants with neuroplasticity, routing around the > 'damage' By hypothesis the replacements preserve functioning. Dementia is a change in functioning, so it won't occur. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.