RE: Consciousness as a brain function
May 26, 2025 at 12:26 pm
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2025 at 12:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 26, 2025 at 12:13 pm)Alan V Wrote:(May 26, 2025 at 10:31 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: There is a literal person-making machine in there, and it's making people all the time. We're probably one of them.
If this is true, then I guess we inevitably will treat robots like people (along with spiritual beings and other fictional characters), whether they really are subjective creatures or not.
The second half of that is what we've been wrong about the entire time. Things that act like us act like that because they are like us. They're not imitators.
Musicians provide an excellent example. It turns out playing alot of instruments is more than our conscious programming can accomplish. We lose ourselves in the music...the complexity of the tunes physically overwhelming the bandwidth of our biological circuitry. We cannot contemplate self and music at the same time. This may be why we have so long believed that music connects us to "gods". To the sense of the numinous.
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