Comment by lz400
5 days ago
>If we took your brain and perfectly digitized it on read-only hardware, would you expect to still “think”?
it wouldn't work probably, brains constantly alter themselves by forming new connections. Learning is inseparable from our intelligence.
Our intelligence, yes. But that doesn't establish it as essential for thought.
I mean, _we_ probably can't think with our wetware on a read-only substrate. It doesn't establish it as essential, just that the only sure example in nature of thought doesn't work that way.
Do you have any particular brain systems in mind that are essential for consciousness and also require mutable state?
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