Re:What ever happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans?
by kubanczyk on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @05:37PM
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> it becomes hard to articulate
I read you. What I find helpful is not to trust my own internal perspective on how I think I think. Things become much clearer when I consider more neutral ground, yes, ants, chatgpts, rocks, etc.
So, yes, I still wonder what would be the advantage of a conscious ant, besides hubris.
> Are we just a more complex version of ants
The same evolution caused humans and ants, that's all. Oak is not a version of orca.
> emergent behavior
This time it's a canonical thought stopper, on the level of "idiopathic disease".
When we strip away all of these aspects from 'the magic' it gets really interesting to think about what's left. And this is always where it becomes hard to articulate for me. Would you describe yourself as a robot performing a set of finite predetermined tasks? A system merely responding to pattern recognition? Are we just a more complex version of ants following some chemical impulses?
I cannot shake the feeling that it's more of a 1+1=3 kind of thing, where the sum is more than the addition of parts. In Complex Systems Theory it would be emergent behavior, I suppose.