On Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 7:21:00 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: > > > > On 27 March 2018 at 09:35, Brent Meeker <[email protected] <javascript:> > > wrote: > >> >> >> On 3/26/2018 3:19 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >> >> >> If you are not and never can be aware of it then in what sense is it >> consciousness? >> >> >> Depends on what you mean by "it". I can be aware of my consciousness, >> without being aware that it is different than it was before; just as I can >> be aware of my consciousness without knowing whether it is the same as >> yours, or the same as some robot. >> > > If I am given a brain implant to try out for a few days and I notice no > difference with the implant (everything feels exactly the same if I switch > it in or out of circuit), everyone I know agrees there is no change in me, > and every test I do with the implant switched in or out of circuit yields > the same results, then I think there would be no good reason to hesitate in > saying yes to the implant. If the change it brings about is neither > objectively nor subjectively obvious, it isn't a change. > > > -- > Stathis Papaioannou >
This argument ignores scaling. With any network you can replace or change nodes and connections on a small scale and the system remains largely unchanged. At a certain critical number of such changes the properties of the entire network system can rapidly change. I read the other day about this whole idea of brain uploading. The neurophysiologists are largely rejecting this idea. LC -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
