not_IOMar 5

there is a special place in hell for these scientists

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/39484942

Blåhaj Lemmy - Choose Your Interface

Show threadstarman2112Mar 6
Raises uncomfortable questions about consciousness. The only difference between these neurons and your own are the number of them and the structures they form. Of course it doesn’t know what it’s doing, but… Neither do our own neurons
Show threadExLisperMar 6
Nueralink did pretty much the same thing to monkeys that are actually concision. So it this different only because those are human neurons? Is human consciousness different than animal consciousness?
Show threadMDCCCLV
That was just to try and make the equipment work at all, it wasn’t about doing anything with software. It’s the opposite where you’re only worried about the physical damage and infection.
Mar 6 at 10:10amWeb
Show threadExLisperMar 6

I was focusing more on the “hooking up conscious brain to computer” part than about the damage and infection part.

Thought experiment: let’s say we have a dead brain patient. You have verified that there is no neural activity in the brain beyond cerebellum. There’s no consciousness in the brain. Legally it’s still considered a person. You can’t for example shoot them.

We also have a 5kg blob of lab grown human brain tissue. We have verified there is neural activity in the entire blob but we don’t know what it’s doing and we can’t communicate with it.

Which one is more conscious? Which one should be considered more human and should have more rights?

Show threadMDCCCLVMar 6
Hooking up to a computer is just installing a software keyboard in your brain, that doesnt really mean or do anything. It’s what software you load after that’s relevant.