Category: Neuroscience
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Who Wants to Live Forever Anyway
By Andrew Bengoku “This idea of living for centuries or millennia is not for me. Even if I were kept in a young and healthy body, after a few centuries I might want to kill myself out of boredom or to avoid going crazy.” This is a common objection when…
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The Identity Room
By Andrew Bengoku If the mind consists of storable information, then we have a serious problem regarding the concept of personal identity. The issue is rather straightforward: if (1) the mind is a set of electrochemical processes enabled by neural structures unique to each individual, and (2) it could be…
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Cut me not!
by Andrew Bengoku “Our mind is a collection of electrochemical processes taking place in the brain enabled by molecular structures unique to each individual.” This statement is so general and “high level” that it’s hard to disagree with. But what exactly does it mean when trying to understand the nuts…
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How to Make a Conscious Machine
by Andrew Bengoku Language and consciousness: a match made in prehistoric caves Whether or not creating a conscious artificial system is something good for humanity is a complex and debatable issue. Keeping this discussion aside, here we describe an attempt to build a conscious machine. At the very end of…
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