On 29 March 2015 at 19:25, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > But isn't it the case that your brain evolved/learned to interpret and be > conscious of these stimuli only because it exists in the context of this > world?
That would be the anthropic explanation of why we find ourselves the people we are, certainly. I think comp simply requires consciousness to exist, then the anthropic reasoning shows that we're most likely to find ourselves existing in a particular type of state (rather than as Boltzman brains, I assume) > > The question as posed by Bruno, is whether you will say yes to the doctor > replacing part of your brain with a digital device that has the connections > to the rest of your brain/body and which implements the same input/output > function for those connections. Would that leave your consciousness > unchanged? > > This is a MORE interesting question in some ways than Bruno's "yes doctor" - would you, with a partial brain replacement,experience reduced consciousness in some sense - e.g. fading qualia? Personally, I imagine not (after all the brain is already modularised, so presumably it already has internal interfaces). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
