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Extracting all info out of the brains would be impractical. A lot of the things humans do we do because we are humans. Our emotions only make sense because they
by snitko 13y ago
Extracting all info out of the brains would be impractical. A lot of the things humans do we do because we are humans. Our emotions only make sense because they are mechanisms of survival and passing our genes. They would be quite impractical in a singularity (although, some other emotions, specific to the digital world, may be employed). So in a sense, I can only see one force in a post-singularity utopia, driving post-humans: knowledge and understanding the beauty of it.
- derefr 13y agoAll of the things humans do, we do because we are humans. There is no "natural set of universal goals for sentient beings"; we simply like what evolution has made us like. Changing (and especially removing) our terminal goals is the same as creating a new species with no relation to us. Why would we want to do that?
- gnaritas 13y agoBecause why would I care if I change species if it keeps my consciousness alive?
- derefr 13y agoWhat is your consciousness, separate from a subsumptive architecture of event loops that react to recognized stimuli in response to goal conditions? Which is to say, if you remove all your goal conditions, all your reference points that could be moved away from center to provoke response -- if you are reduced to http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Orgasmium http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Orgasmium, in other words -- are you really aware any more?
- kilowatt 13y agoI like to imagine at least that our consciousnesses are abstract enough, and derive enough pleasure from art, and music, and conversation, etc., that they don't need arbitrary goal conditions like "death is relatively imminent, so get out of bed." Or at least, if they do, we'd be smart enough in the short term to manufacture goal conditions. And that they'd happily exist, and flourish even, in a new substrate.
- gnaritas 13y ago> What is your consciousness It's me; and I'd be happy to give up the biological machine I'm running on and trade it for an equivalent or better technological machine or VR environment where the limits of biology no longer applied. Removing my biology doesn't remove all of my goal conditions; it removes the ones nature imposed upon me. I could add back any I like and choose to drop those I don't. We're intelligent beings who have transcended being driven by instinct alone; we can choose our own goals independent of nature.
- jjoe 13y agoWhat if the "info" is in the heart... And for those who downvoted, you need to read more about the functions of the heart besides blood pumping. The heart has neurons too and an electromagnetic field far stronger than the brain's. Update: some links The little brain on the heart: http://www.ccjm.org/content/74/Suppl_1/S48.full.pdf http://www.ccjm.org/content/74/Suppl_1/S48.full.pdf Does changing the heart mean changing personality? A retrospective inquiry on 47 heart transplant patients: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1299456 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1299456
- unimpressive 13y agoThen exactly what would the brain be doing? Then how come when you poke around the brain it changes peoples behaviors? How come people who get a heart transplant don't become different people?
- hakan 13y agohttps://www.google.com/search?q=heart+transplant+food+craving https://www.google.com/search?q=heart+transplant+food+cravin...
- ankitml 13y agowhich info? you mean human memory? How is electromagnetic field of heart related to memory