That excruciating pain you’re going to put the brain through will fundamentally alter what decisions that brain will make, via diversion of its cognitive resources.
But I said that it’s not connected to any motor nerves, so it has no decisions to make. Well, I suppose it can still decide what to think about, so let’s say I also remove that ability and force its thoughts to drift randomly.
But I said that it’s not connected to any motor nerves, so it has no decisions to make.
Neither are most supercomputers connected to motor nerves, yet people are quite interested in their output!
Well, I suppose it can still decide what to think about, so let’s say I also remove that ability and force its thoughts to drift randomly.
In that case, it’s no longer clear if “pain” is even well-defined. Something whose thoughts truly drift randomly and are prevented from attaining any order … is in a state of entropy; it does not even count as a control system, let alone life.
But I said that it’s not connected to any motor nerves, so it has no decisions to make. Well, I suppose it can still decide what to think about, so let’s say I also remove that ability and force its thoughts to drift randomly.
Neither are most supercomputers connected to motor nerves, yet people are quite interested in their output!
In that case, it’s no longer clear if “pain” is even well-defined. Something whose thoughts truly drift randomly and are prevented from attaining any order … is in a state of entropy; it does not even count as a control system, let alone life.