It just looks that’s what worked in evolution—to have independent organisms, each carrying its own brain. And the brain happens to have the richest information processing and integration, compared to information processing between the brains.
I don’t know what would be necessary to have a more “joined” existence. Mushrooms seem to be able to form bigger structures, but they didn’t have an environment complex enough to require the evolution of brains.
Basically, without mind-uploading, you really can’t safely merge minds, nor can you edit them very well. You also can’t put a brain in a new body without destroying it.
This the simplification of a separate mind works very well.
It seems that we just never had any situations that would challenge this way of thinking (those twins are an exception).
This Cartesian simplification almost always works, so it seems like it’s just the way the world is at its core.
This. It’s why things like mind-uploading get so weird, so fast. We won’t have to deal with now, but later that’s a problem.
Agreed, but what is it about the structure of the world that made it the case that this Cartesian simplification works so much of the time?
It just looks that’s what worked in evolution—to have independent organisms, each carrying its own brain. And the brain happens to have the richest information processing and integration, compared to information processing between the brains.
I don’t know what would be necessary to have a more “joined” existence. Mushrooms seem to be able to form bigger structures, but they didn’t have an environment complex enough to require the evolution of brains.
Basically, without mind-uploading, you really can’t safely merge minds, nor can you edit them very well. You also can’t put a brain in a new body without destroying it.
This the simplification of a separate mind works very well.