I don’t believe uploads would be conscious, but let’s put that aside for a moment… Suppose long-range connections were somehow added to an already adult brain that had lacked them. Do your cognitive models say anything about what the effects would be?
I think everything would be fine. I don’t see any issues. As long as the relevant learning rates is set to more than zero, I think the cortical learning algorithm would “do its thing”, and it would learn newer better predictive models that bring together spatially-distant information streams, and all the schizophrenia symptoms (including cognitive) would gradually go away.
With sufficiently advanced technology, we can upload everyone to whole-brain-emulations, and then add or subtract whatever connections we want :)
I don’t believe uploads would be conscious, but let’s put that aside for a moment… Suppose long-range connections were somehow added to an already adult brain that had lacked them. Do your cognitive models say anything about what the effects would be?
I think everything would be fine. I don’t see any issues. As long as the relevant learning rates is set to more than zero, I think the cortical learning algorithm would “do its thing”, and it would learn newer better predictive models that bring together spatially-distant information streams, and all the schizophrenia symptoms (including cognitive) would gradually go away.