[ExI] Coherent vs. Incoherent Fears of Being Uploaded

[Stathis Papaioannou]

2010/1/21 Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com>:

> Someone earlier was talking about why we might have these subjective,
> experienced feelings at all, why would evolution use them? I think
> that, whatever they are, they are part of a system developed back when
> the brain was much poorer at information processing, in much simpler
> organisms, and that system is still there, even though if you were to
> start from scratch without it, you could probably make a fitter
> organism. We're made up of all kinds of things like that.

Do you really think it would be easier to make a device with
subjectivity than without? I think it is more likely that the
subjectivity is a necessary side-effect of the information processing
underpinning it.


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Stathis Papaioannou