On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Jul 28, 3:53 pm, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: > >One of Craig's main ideas is that things made of carbon can feel certain > >ways > > Mais non! Being made of carbon isn't important in theory, it's having > the experience of a living organism with a nervous system that > dictates whether it can feel certain ways. If you can get silicon to > become a living organism with a nervous system then it could very well > feel the same ways. You may have to recapitulate the entire experience > of life on a planet, a geology, ecosystem, etc within the organism as > well. It could take hundreds of millions of years. What differences does the history of a life have to do with what you are experiencing now? If aliens created a human being from scratch just like you, and swapped you out while you were asleep, why would this physically identical copy of you behave differently than the you which was born? > If you used one > real neuron (probably need a group of real neurons in practice) you > might be able to skip all that. > > So how small can the group of "real" neurons be? Can it be all artificial except for one neuron and function as a normal mind? Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
