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And likewise, maybe others start out in a state of unimaginable agony with a long memory of the same.
by baddox 8y ago
And likewise, maybe others start out in a state of unimaginable agony with a long memory of the same.
- vinceguidry 8y agoDoes self-awareness presume the existence of emotion? I feel like Boltzman wouldn't have bothered to assert self-awareness if he'd had a real knowledge of the various gradations of consciousness and just how rare they are, even on Earth.
- majos 8y agoAs a dude-do-you-ever-think sidenote, this sort of thing keeps me from getting excited about any type of virtual reality that does anything with our brains. How do I know it won't simulate 10 years of torture, then at the end replace that memory with 10 minutes of an edenic golden field, so when I actually unplug all I have is a nice remembered experience that I'd like (incorrectly) to try again?
- Florin_Andrei 8y agoWell, growing up you have no guarantee your life is going to be 100% sunshine-and-bunnies, and indeed it rarely is. And yet you live.
- majos 8y ago@Florin_Andrei: Sure, but we have reasonable expectations of how bad things can get and our capacity to learn from them. Alter your perception and memory and those things go out the window, and that's way scarier than normal organic life.
- baddox 8y agoWhy would that be such a bad thing? Or to put it another way, how do you know you weren't tortured for the last 10 years and then given a memory wipe?