On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 11:27 AM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
> *while I can't know what it's like to be a bat anymore than a bat can > know what it's like to be me, we can't rule out the existence of > super-states of consciousness, perhaps possessed by Jupiter brains, which > would be able to simultaneously hold in mind and compare different brain > states.* We are enormously more intelligent than an ant but we don't know what it's like to be an ant, and for the same reason I don't see how a Jupiter Brain could know what it's like to be one of us; and becoming more intelligent won't help because that would just make it even more different from us. John K Clark > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv10cuNKFn-mR9U9Fpvq%2BsvFAchQDrdav1c%3DauQq-wBqHQ%40mail.gmail.com.
