note that in the setting of the second paragraph I wrote, every “firing pattern” will eventually emerge. You may have misunderstood my comment as taking the basic premise of your post as true and quibbling about the details, but I am skeptical about even the fundamental idea
oh I understood you weren’t agreeing. I was just responding that I don’t know what aspects of ‘firing patterns’ specifically cause sentience to emerge, or how it would or wouldn’t apply to your alternate scenarios.
I see. There’s a really nice post here (maybe several) that touches on that idea in a manner similar to the Ship of Theseus, but I can’t find it. The basic idea was that if we take for granted the idea that mind uploads are fully conscious but then start updating the architecture to optimize for various things, is there a point where we are no longer “sentient”.
yeah, it’s all very weird stuff. Also, what is required for continuity? - like staying the same you, and not just someone who has all your memories and thinks they’re still you?
note that in the setting of the second paragraph I wrote, every “firing pattern” will eventually emerge. You may have misunderstood my comment as taking the basic premise of your post as true and quibbling about the details, but I am skeptical about even the fundamental idea
oh I understood you weren’t agreeing. I was just responding that I don’t know what aspects of ‘firing patterns’ specifically cause sentience to emerge, or how it would or wouldn’t apply to your alternate scenarios.
I see. There’s a really nice post here (maybe several) that touches on that idea in a manner similar to the Ship of Theseus, but I can’t find it. The basic idea was that if we take for granted the idea that mind uploads are fully conscious but then start updating the architecture to optimize for various things, is there a point where we are no longer “sentient”.
yeah, it’s all very weird stuff. Also, what is required for continuity? - like staying the same you, and not just someone who has all your memories and thinks they’re still you?