(May 31, 2012 at 4:03 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Although they are functionally related, what we call mind and the brain have no shared physical properties. Physical trauma to the brain may alter the contents of consciousness, but it doesn’t make any sense to describe a thought as being physically damaged. For example, you could dye the brain green and it wouldn't make the thoughts green.Let me get this straight, you are claiming that regardless what happens to your brain "you" stay the same? Your personality, memories, everything that makes you being you does not change regardless? What about people that become violent or simply mad as a result of brain injury? Where is their original self gone?
(May 31, 2012 at 4:57 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: So are you now saying that Linux causes subjective experience?Is your Linux machine the same complexity as a human brain? Or at least a fish brain? You are comparing the speed of a snail with the speed of light. When the hardware will be measurably close to a brain in terms of complexity maybe machine feelings will be a reality.
I have no problem sharing a common ancestor with the apes; it's being related to some people that bothers me.
