What's your best guess explanation for how consciousness exists for a given person?
And based on that explanation what do you think it would therefore take to be able to isolate, transplant, capture, preserve or restore it, and how it might be possible to somehow measure the success of that (if you think it can be done).
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I'm the only one that's real.
The rest of you are just robots.
>What's your best guess explanation for how consciousness exists for a given person?
It just do because neurons and electricity and sheeiit.
>And based on that explanation what do you think it would therefore take to be able to isolate, transplant, capture, preserve or restore it, and how it might be possible to somehow measure the success of that (if you think it can be done).
You put da brain in the thing and Frankenstein that muhfuka.
Synapses n shit.
Consciousness is an emergent phenomenon. You cannot capture, let alone preserve it.
Prove to me that I'm a robot. I fooled captcha; I can certainly fool you.
It's the current state of brain. Simply capture the locations of atoms and restore that in someone else's brain.
I'd say consciousness is something like the mingling of our senses with other facilities (memory, emotion, abstraction, subconscious, unconscious brain/body processes etc.). Given that, I think those approaches that treat preserving consciousness as a mere storage problem are destined to fail. Simply storing memories is not enough, and even if one were to combine that with a pain/pleasure/abstraction feedback system to form some kind of consciousness, there are countless other aspects of the brain and its biology that go into forming a 'person'.
In the near future, I'd put most stock into efforts that seek to preserve the brain itself... Or clone it at a very detailed level; since we are not just 'consciousness' or memory alone. I think it will be quite awhile before we have non-biological analogues to all that goes on in a brain.
this. desu. no other theory makes sense.
>brain
To focus only on the brain is to ignore many other organs that influence our state of mind and our thoughts. For example the digestive system plays a huge role on how we feel and what we think.