I can think of two consequences of patternism—firstly, that consciousness doesn’t depend on any specific substance, only on the pattern. This is very important when judging the consciousness of mind uploads, AIs, robots or aliens.
Secondly, if we’re the pattern, we survive mind upload, which seems very important too.
I can think of two consequences of patternism—firstly, that consciousness doesn’t depend on any specific substance, only on the pattern. This is very important when judging the consciousness of mind uploads, AIs, robots or aliens.
Secondly, if we’re the pattern, we survive mind upload, which seems very important too.