Meditators seek spirituality via cutting influence of brain's default net. Yet many fear ems losing moral value via losing human features, & cutting default net is plausible path. So are ems w/ less default net spiritual ideals, or empty of moral value? https://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/02/how-human-are-meditators.html …
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Replying to @robinhanson
There are certainly conceptions of Buddhism in which the goal is to eliminate sentience, with the complicated meditation part being necessary because if you straightforward died you would just reincarnate. I agree this destroys moral value (cont)
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Replying to @slatestarcodex @robinhanson
Do you think this has ever worked? That is, do you think there are Buddhists who've made themselves non-sentient through meditation, who you'd say now lack moral value? What does this state look like - could an uninformed layman be fooled into thinking they're sentient?
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I am not an expert on this and may be completely misunderstanding. I believe that mahaparanirvana is only attainable after death. I believe there are Buddhists who claim to have eliminated most of what we would call emotions and preferences.
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