On Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 7:21:00 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: > > > > On 27 March 2018 at 09:35, Brent Meeker <meek...@verizon.net <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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
