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Even assuming that it is an antenna, then if your antenna is the only one receiving your consciousness then it is the seat of your consciousness or equivalent,
by cgio 9y ago
Even assuming that it is an antenna, then if your antenna is the only one receiving your consciousness then it is the seat of your consciousness or equivalent, i.e. its reasonable to assume that if you restore the antenna you will restore the consciousness in place (I am leveraging the fact that you called it a seat). On the other side of the coin, with embodied consciousness you could raise other potential issues with preservation of the brain alone. Connection between gut bacteria and mental conditions are being researched with some results confirming hypotheses there.
- noetic_techy 9y agoI completely agree that leaving out the gut-brain connection may be a huge error in our quest for General AI simulation. I'm not sure that I agree that simulating neurons in silicon form is equivalent to restoring the antenna though. There may be a quantum link that only neurons have functionally. They are already finding quantum effects in plants: https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/vibrating-molecules-help-plants-make-use-quantum-effects_en.html https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/vibrating-molecules-help... And that our brain contains micro-tubules that exhibit quantum effects: https://phys.org/news/2014-01-discovery-quantum-vibrations-microtubules-corroborates.html https://phys.org/news/2014-01-discovery-quantum-vibrations-m... Maybe they ARE the antenna.
- earenndil 9y agoWell, maybe if that theory is true, then if the connection is "severed," so to speak, there's no way to restore it?