On 3/29/2015 5:43 PM, LizR wrote:
On 29 March 2015 at 19:25, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[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).
Yes, I would only expect some subtle effects such as different sensitivity to MRI's and probably an inability to learn new things (which I already experience).
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