On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 3:50 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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]> 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). >
You can ignore anything he may have said before or sense and consider just what is written in the "Fading Qualia" experiment, which is described on that link. > 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. > > So would a person with 1 artificial neuron still be conscious? What if 10% were replaced? What if 51% were replaced, what if 99% were artificial, what if all but 1 biological neuron was left? Jason -- 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.
