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If you could put your mind into an octopus, could you learn to use your 8 tentacles? Probably not without no longer being a human mind and becoming an octopus m
by jp555 6y ago
If you could put your mind into an octopus, could you learn to use your 8 tentacles? Probably not without no longer being a human mind and becoming an octopus mind.
Our bodies (and culture & environment) are part of our minds. They cannot be separated without destroying that mind. Also, most of what we think is our own “intelligence” actually exists outside our brains, in our culture & civilization.
“Uploading our minds” only seems plausible if you have a cargo cult understanding of what is actually happening.
- mLuby 6y agoHumans learn to drive cars, fly aircraft, operate robotic arms, and play video games quite well, to the point where they consider those things "extensions of themselves." I wouldn't say a pro StarCraft player who's soldier management clicking has become muscle memory isn't really a human mind anymore. And likewise humans whose bodies have crippled or dismembered are still fully human despite sometimes barely being able to move or sense.
- jp555 6y agoBecause their minds are all still inseparable from their bodies. You make my point, we are not just our mind, but a mind dynamically interconnected with a civilization in amazingly complex ways. Whether its the medieval catholic church, the interstate highway system, WoW, or the Internet. Cognition scientists are pretty sure that we think with our bodies, not just our brain. If you totally separated the human body from the human mind, it is by definition not a human anymore. At best it would be closer to the ghost we leave behind online after we die. Just a shadow or footprints. I dont expect us to ever do better than making really convincing animatronic ghosts.