It also seems to strongly imply than mind uploading into some kind of classical artificial machine is possible, since it’s unlikely that all or even most of the classical properties of the brain are essential.
Could you say more about this? Why is this unlikely?
There seems to generally be a ton of arbitrary path-dependent stuff everywhere in biology that evolution hasn’t yet optimized away, and I don’t see a reason to expect the brain’s implementation of consciousness to be an exception.
Agreed about its implementation of awareness, as opposed to being unaware but still existing. What about its implementation of existing, as opposed to nonexistence?
Based on this comment I guess by “existing” you mean phenomenal consciousness and by “awareness” you mean behavior? I think the set of brainlike things that have the same phenomenal consciousness as me is a subset of the brainlike things that have the same behavior as me.
Well I’d put it the other way round. I don’t know what phenomenal consciousness is unless it just means the bare fact of existence. I currently think the thing people call phenomenal consciousness is just “having realityfluid”.
Could you say more about this? Why is this unlikely?
There seems to generally be a ton of arbitrary path-dependent stuff everywhere in biology that evolution hasn’t yet optimized away, and I don’t see a reason to expect the brain’s implementation of consciousness to be an exception.
Agreed about its implementation of awareness, as opposed to being unaware but still existing. What about its implementation of existing, as opposed to nonexistence?
Based on this comment I guess by “existing” you mean phenomenal consciousness and by “awareness” you mean behavior? I think the set of brainlike things that have the same phenomenal consciousness as me is a subset of the brainlike things that have the same behavior as me.
Well I’d put it the other way round. I don’t know what phenomenal consciousness is unless it just means the bare fact of existence. I currently think the thing people call phenomenal consciousness is just “having realityfluid”.