Charlie Stross

TIRED: Mind uploading
WIRED: Gut uploading

Your gut has a complex nervous system of its own—the enteric nervous system—that has huge and subtle effects on mood and cognition! Just digitizing your brain is inadequate, UPLOAD THE GUT FIRST! (The brain can come later.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric_nervous_system

Enteric nervous system - Wikipedia

Mar 25, 2025 at 4:34pmWeb
Show threadAndrewMar 25, 2025
@cstross i'm taking this to mean that maybe AI needs to be connected to a printer to work properly. like, not to print anything, just so there's some good messy fluid involved so it can properly think
Show threadschrotthaufenMar 25, 2025
@andrewt @cstross To achieve true AGI, it needs to run on the OT infrastructure of waste water treatment plants.
Show threadParker MorseMar 25, 2025
@cstross @andrewt say, a nice hot cup of tea
Show threadJdeBPMar 25, 2025

@andrewt @cstross

It does make one wonder whether all of the corpsicles that went for the cheap option and only froze their heads have in fact completely screwed any infinitesimal chance that they might have had as a full body.

#cryonics #corpsicles

Show threadJPMar 25, 2025
@cstross this is probably a good one to throw in the faces of mind-upload-believers bc the computational analogy at the heart of their assumptions completely breaks down here. how many transistors do we need to emulate your sigmoid colon? infinity, MFer. infinity.
Show threadexcdsMar 25, 2025

@cstross That sounds like a shit idea.

Sorry, couldn't resist the bad pun...

Show threadsauaMar 25, 2025
@excds @cstross sometimes you just gotta go with your gut.
Show threadexcdsMar 25, 2025
@saua @cstross I concede. You win.
Show threadMartin, Regulus TithoniumMar 25, 2025
@cstross My gut and I are at war and I don’t want to take it with me.
Show threadCavyherdMar 25, 2025

@cstross

When I first heard about that, apparently there's more neural tissue in the digestive system than in the brain. 🤯

(I also gather that (last I heard) consciousness research suggests that a body is •required• for viable consciousness.)

Show threadHugo MillsMar 25, 2025
@cstross Can I make changes and then download a bugfixed one?
Show threadJonMar 26, 2025
@cstross Disemboweling, THEN Torment Nexus?
Show threadJohn GordonMar 31, 2025
@cstross I think Greg Bear did a story or two along these lines. Bio-singularity.