<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Stathis Papaioannou </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:stathisp@gmail.com" target="_blank">stathisp@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#500050"><br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="gmail_quote m_4276801054647951785gmail-m_843139277639413363gmail_msg"><div class="m_4276801054647951785gmail-m_843139277639413363gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>It's not immediately obvious that the belief that consciousness is only generated by biological systems is wrong.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​<font size="4">It is also</font></div><font size="4"> not immediately obvious that the belief that consciousness is only generated by </font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">​ME ​</font></div><font size="4">is wrong.</font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">​ I think both possibilities are ​equally likely.</font></div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"> </font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="gmail_quote m_4276801054647951785gmail-m_843139277639413363gmail_msg"><div class="m_4276801054647951785gmail-m_843139277639413363gmail_msg"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>If you have this belief then you would be reluctant to accept non-biological brain implants proved to lead to no behavioural change,</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​<font size="4">Yes, so during the Singularity people who have that belief will become the equivalent ​</font></div><font size="4">of the Amish (if they are lucky) and be left in the dust by those who think Darwin's ​theory is correct and thus see no reason not to have electronic upgrades for their brain. So even in the unlikely </font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">​event​</font></div><font size="4"> it's true believers in the <span>consciousness <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​is​</div> substrate specific<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ meme have no future.​</div></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> John K Clark</div></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>