Yes, biology is a terrible demon to which we are all bound. But technology is just as much a part of being human as biology, arguably moreso, and makes a better logos or whatever. Biological differences including IQ differences exist but are iteratively nullified by tech.
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If you worship biological differences, even those that notionally "drive technological progress", you are missing the bigger picture. In the long run progress is a measure of the extent to which unaugmented biology no longer restrains human potential, period.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
I don’t believe technology is human, pretty sure it’s not possible to simulate across boundaries.
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Replying to @HundredthIdiot
Tool use is a common point of demarcation between man and other animals, which is all I really meant. What boundaries are you referencing? It may be a tad optimistic to assume technology can do anything, but we really don't know right now, do we?
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Replying to @Alephwyr
Systems boundaries between mental and biological. Both are systems that rely on each other to exist. So it’s strange to think you can simulate a lower level in a higher level and think it would create the same thing.
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Replying to @HundredthIdiot
I dunno, I tend to assume something like epiphenomenalism for most of my thinking, in which consciousness has one-to-one correspondences in biology from which it originates but is not strictly reducible to biology.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
I used to be on that camp, but after reading Deacon’s Incomplete Nature it’s getting hard to ignore.
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I'll try to find it on SoulSeek. Thanks for the recommendation :)
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