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Re:'Biocomputer' combines lab-grown brain tissue with electr... by knodi123 on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:23PM (#38634315)
That's not sentience. That's just life.

Neurons do not have a brain. They do not have emotions or feelings or thoughts. This conversation is so absurd that it's well into the realm of fantasy.

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Re:'Biocomputer' combines lab-grown brain tissue with electr... by odyssey7 on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:47PM (#38634621)
What causes a neuron to perform its functions if it isn't some brain? The answer would likely be physics, and I would say that first-person experience is fundamental in the physics if it exists at all.
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Re:'Biocomputer' combines lab-grown brain tissue with electr... by holoduke on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @06:01PM (#38635456)
Or somekind of electrical system, acting as a software layer on top of the hardware (neurons) layer. This electrical thing is what controls and orchestrates everything and also is our ego.
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