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The really hard problem is that your gut, having a neural network as complex as your brain, is also probably conscious. And all it's ever known and will ever kn
by tardedmeme 5mo ago
The really hard problem is that your gut, having a neural network as complex as your brain, is also probably conscious. And all it's ever known and will ever know is the feeling of pushing food through it and tasting different types of food. Now that's a horror story.
- gizajob 5mo agoIt’s only your labels in language that are splitting this system into separate parts.
- simiones 5mo agoConversely, it may be that it's only labels in language that are unifying disparate parts into a single "neural system" concept. Ultimately the world is either individual particles and fields, or it is all Oneness, Brahman, and anything else is just arbitrary unification/division; but we can't know which is which.
- ben_w 5mo ago> Now that's a horror story. For us, sure; why would it be so for them? Crows don't seem to be particularly upset by strutting around naked and eating bugs from the dirt. The guts' idea of a horror story, if it has one, may be more like indigestion or norovirus.