There is no separation of cognition from the rest of the anatomy. Your stomach and your balls and even your environment have just as much effect on your cognition as your neurons in your brain. This is my main critique of transhumansts, you assume the mind may be free of the body
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Replying to @la_bug_epoque @woke8yearold
When what we know points towards a deeper more difficult to accept truth. Our consciousness is built atop miles of scaffolding, nature & anatomy working hand in hand to create the phenomenon of human thought. Y’all think you can take one small portion out of the scaffolding...
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Replying to @la_bug_epoque @woke8yearold
And insert it in a different alien system without drastically changing the internal nature of the component (consciousness)
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At this point the exchange may continue endlessly with us rehashing various points so I will leave you with this. If there ever comes a time where intelligence can escape the human form, it will be in an entirely non-human direction with no exit for us in sight.
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