On Mon, Apr 12, 2021, 10:35 AM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > We are enormously more intelligent than an ant but our working memories can hold on to how many facts at once? 5? 10? An ant brain has hundreds of thousands of neurons and tens of millions of connections. So despite our intelligence, our minds are no where near capable of understanding and comprehending all the structural interrelationships present in an ant brain. A super intelligence, on the other hand, could have the requisite memory and processing to hold in it's mind a comprehension of another, much simpler mind, as well as the plausible flexibility to reconfigure parts of it's own mind to generate direct experiences and extract memories comprehensible to the greater mind at large. Jason > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv10cuNKFn-mR9U9Fpvq%2BsvFAchQDrdav1c%3DauQq-wBqHQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CA%2BBCJUjW3HnfZSysJ6jtcNKOLq19%2BKUYZqB_SGmXNcd0ACL9Hg%40mail.gmail.com.
