Jon LebkowskyWith all the talk of AI, I looked around and found my "Consciousness in a Box" piece from three decades ago, written then as a response to the idea that consciousness can be uploaded into some sort of storage device: https://weblogsky.com/2011/05/20/consciousness-in-a-box/
Consciousness in a Box | Jon Lebkowsky
Stumbled onto this piece I wrote in 1994 for FringeWare Review, triggered by a meeting with Hans Moravec, as I recall. Robotics has two sides -- real-world practical application and development, and scifi mythopoetic phantasy construction -- and like most real/surreal dichotomies of the Information Age, these two sides are blurred and indistinct within human