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Personally I think most people who argue consciousness is an emergent property of complicated physical systems would believe that the machine would still be con
by joeberon 5y ago
Personally I think most people who argue consciousness is an emergent property of complicated physical systems would believe that the machine would still be conscious after replacing every neuron with a chip
- slfnflctd 5y agoGiven a sufficiently advanced chip which included all chemical interactions (or effective simulations), why wouldn't they be? If after the transition is complete we determine/decide they aren't conscious, then we have to argue about at what point the 'hybrid' brain ceases to manifest consciousness, and why. Maybe the organic parts would start to change their prior functionality in response to the synthesized parts... but that would suggest we just didn't have a complete enough model of the neuron and we're back to square one. Once that model is complete, there should by definition be no problem, unless you want to argue it can never be complete, for which you then need evidence to convince everyone. I say it's worth continued study.
- lovecg 5y agoOn the topic of simulating neurons, we might be able to simulate the _static_ structure but neurons also move around and make new connections. This video opened my eyes on how far we really are from a realistic simulation: https://youtu.be/CJ3d1FgbmFg https://youtu.be/CJ3d1FgbmFg