Neuroscience
by Abie Cohen and · updated 1mo ago
Neuroscience
by Abie Cohen and · updated 1mo ago
Without synchrony and the deeper forms of connection that lie beyond it, we may be at greater risk for mental instability and poor physical health. With synchrony and other levels of neural interaction, humans teach and learn, forge friendships and romances, and cooperate and converse. We are driven to connect, and synchrony is one way our brains h
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https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/351893/consciousness-ai-machines-neuroscience-mind
The great substrate debate: Biochauvinism versus artificial consciousness
Mary Martin added 3mo ago
If consciousness really can arise in a jumble of silicon chips, we run the risk of creating countless AIs — beings, really — that can not only intelligently perform tasks, but develop feelings about their lives.
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Rather than asking if each new AI system is finally the one that has conscious experience, focusing on the more fundamental que
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the pregnant person body is not an ‘external environment’ within which the foetus is solitary and ‘confined’, waiting for the ‘lightbulb’ of consciousness to be switched on at a given timepoint when the neurogenesis is completed. Here I propose that both the easy and hard problem of developmental consciousness cannot be addressed without putting th
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Chapter 18, The Dog Beneath the Skin from The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
gabriel added 9mo ago
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