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Yeah, I similarly don't get the fascination with brain simulation. Say someone told me they had an exact simulation of by brain running, and I was convinced be
by yters 18y ago
Yeah, I similarly don't get the fascination with brain simulation. Say someone told me they had an exact simulation of by brain running, and I was convinced beyond a doubt they were right, would I be fine with dying at that point? No.
To paraphrase Samuel Clemens:
"I don't want to gain immortality through brain simulation. I want to gain immortality by not dying."
- newsycaccount 18y agoDo you also get concerned that practically every atom in your body now will be replaced by others by next year?
- hassy 18y agowould the atoms get concerned if they were conscious?
- byrneseyeview 18y agoWhy treat consciousness as a property of brains, rather than as a property that could be -- but doesn't necessarily have to be -- implemented with one?
- gjm11 18y agoIt was Allan Konigsberg, not Samuel Clemens.
- yters 18y agoYep, that's right. Bad on me for not sourcing my quote.
- bd 18y agoAnd what if somebody was slowly replacing your real neurons with artificial ones? Start with one chip-neuron, finish with the whole artificial brain. In all steps of the process your "self" being preserved. Credit goes to Stanislaw Lem "Do you exist Mr Jones?"
- yters 18y agoYeah, that's a bit more convincing. I'm mainly skeptical about the idea of consciousness replication. My statement was meant to show that even if the brain simulation created a consciousness, it wasn't the same as my consciousness, which would still disappear if I were to die.