On Friday, May 3, 2019 at 3:19:00 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 2:58 AM <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> >> On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 7:10:03 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 5/1/2019 4:24 PM, [email protected] wrote: >>> > I would say that one could have a Jupiter planet-sized network of >>> > Intel® Core™ processors + whatever distributed program running on it, >>> > and it will not be conscious. >>> >>> Based on what? Human hubris? >>> >>> Brent >>> >> >> >> A racist is [via Google definition] "a person who shows or feels >> discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes >> that a particular race is superior to another". >> >> I'm not that, but I do think that different types of matter have >> different capabilities (as materials scientists do). >> >> > Are you familiar with the Fading Qualia thought experiment: > http://www.consc.net/papers/qualia.html ? > > If so I am very interested to know what your conclusions on it are. I.e., > what would someone feel/experience/say as their bio neurons are gradually > replaced with artificial silicon neurons? > > Jason >
I've found David Chalmers a bit hard to digest. He seems to keep jumping around on what he thinks consciousness is (from the 1990s to soon-to-be 2020s). As Philip Goff said (via a Twitter response), he has one type of view on panpsychism or consciousness Monday-Wednesday and another the rest of the week. Synthetic neurons (polymer-based) are in the science news of course. Replacing one's original neurons with these (w/similar chemical abilities) seems doable. @philipthrift -- 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.
