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My brain is fascinated by the intangability of things on my devices.
I have files I generated that are older than some of my friends. Somehow this is different to me than a piece of paper I wrote being the same age.
The fact I can open files from decades ago on a machine made today is wild.
There's this blurriness of time that is so strange.

I think this is why I'm so fascinated by the idea of sentient Artificial General Intelligence. It's a mind that isn't tangibly adhered to a brain, it's a mind in software. It makes me wonder if my mind is also not actually my BRAIN, but "software" on it that could be moved if we figure out how.

The brain has different areas that handle different tasks. We can map that. We can see what part of the brain processes hearing, or eyesight. ....my computer does that! Different parts of it do different things, and it all comes together for one "task".

Now, where the fuck is my CLI and ports? I need to get out of this meatbag!

Miakoda

Btw - I believe any being with enough brain power is going to inevitably be sentient. That's why I so strongly believe AI is sentience is not only possible but inevitable.

I'm wondering, if someone suffers a brain injury, and we could move them a new brain (bio or artificial), would the person be ok again? I think yes!
Just... not if it's copy instead of move. Copy is bad!

@hellomiakoda

Book recommendation: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_

If mind is software, copy is so easy, it's going to become a way of doing a thought experiment. "What would I do if..." becomes "simulate whatever if is, insert a copy of me in, see what happens, then kill (delete?) the me copy". So much unethical cyber mind abuse.

en.m.wikipedia.orgBeing You: A New Science of Consciousness - Wikipedia

@eswag
Noooo don't abuse my copies!
My original has already suffered so much. 😢

@hellomiakoda it's when one copy (they're all copies, the original doesn't have any special rights) does it to another copy & calls it imagination that things get weird.