Would you object if (on top of making you cooler) we tied your responses to other situations? Say, looking up a simple fact would feel like scratching an itch, exchanging ideas would feel like sex, whatever environment you’re most often in would trigger your “this is home and normal and safe” response, manipulating fleets of nanobots would feel like carving, etc.
Yes, I would object to that too. To put it differently, I would object to everything that violates the integrity of the present correlation between my brain states and the external world (that includes the fact that my body is actually the mediator).
Would you object if (on top of making you cooler) we tied your responses to other situations? Say, looking up a simple fact would feel like scratching an itch, exchanging ideas would feel like sex, whatever environment you’re most often in would trigger your “this is home and normal and safe” response, manipulating fleets of nanobots would feel like carving, etc.
Yes, I would object to that too. To put it differently, I would object to everything that violates the integrity of the present correlation between my brain states and the external world (that includes the fact that my body is actually the mediator).