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I think there is a fundamental paradox at the root of consciousness and thought: once we succeed in alleviating suffering by discarding the body, we are already
by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
I think there is a fundamental paradox at the root of consciousness and thought: once we succeed in alleviating suffering by discarding the body, we are already in hell. What is the purpose of a mind without a body? To witness? To what ends? There's a reason that the lower brain is at the seat of the throne. Maybe we should focus more on cooperating and less on becoming a purposeless husk. If the string is too tight it breaks, if it is too loose it will not play.
- FeepingCreature 6y agoIf you can emulate a brain, you can probably emulate a body.
- WealthVsSurvive 6y agoBut to emulate the body, you must emulate the environment that shaped it, so now we're talking microverse creation. You could at best emulate the full set of current functions, but without the environment that model would be subject to incompleteness, entropy. You could perhaps watch for change, using the human corpus as input; all set conclusions seem to lead back to AI as human local intelligence orchestrator, rather than AI as emulation of human thought, maybe the two becoming one over time.
- FeepingCreature 6y ago> But to emulate the body, you must emulate the environment that shaped it, so now we're talking microverse creation. Yes, this is called "virtual reality" and "physics engine". The brain does not need its environments to be 100% indistinguishable from its ancestral environment; if it did, we could never move away from where we were born.
- RobertoG 6y ago>>"[..]What is the purpose of a mind without a body?[..]" What's the purpose of a mind with a body?
- joeberon 6y agoTo help the body survive