[ExI] More thoughts on sentient computers

[Dave S]

On Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 at 3:00 AM, Giovanni Santostasi via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Our brain is a simulation, not sure why it is not understood by most people.

I don't think it's true. Our brains are biological organs. I don't understand what you think they're simulations of.

> We make up the world. Most of our conscious life is actually filling the gaps, confabulating to make sense of the sensory information we receive (highly filtered and selected) and our internal mental states.

If you're saying that our internal representations of the world are inaccurate and incomplete, I agree.

-Dave
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