Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Discussion

SystemShock said

I feel like I am putting words into @Heathen Saint 's mouth at this point, but as I understand it, it is not a digital version, but the actual chemical and electric impulses that fire up in your brain, but they now fire up in another medium. Like pouring the water in one glass into another glass: same water, different glass.

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I think we still have a way to go to understand consciousness, obviously. But consciousness almost certainly consists of more than just neural impulses. And the complicated network of electrical pulses in the brain could present equally complicated problems upon transfer. It’s possible that your consciousness would no longer be a first person experience.