Our brains, quite obviously, aren't special. There's no magic smoke blown up our butts that give us our emotions and creativity. Our brains are a chunk of think

Our brains, quite obviously, aren't special. There's no magic smoke blown up our butts that give us our emotions and creativity. Our brains are a chunk of thinking meat, bound by the same rules as everything else in our physical reality. Our curiosity, emotions and creativity are the result of our evolutionary process and nothing more. Saying that all of these things can't be experienced by some future machine is just human exceptionalism. Perhaps there really are quantum tubules in our heads, but then we can still use the same effect inside a machine brain. We're just conscious, loving, dreaming meat lmao. (Terry Bisson)