Does anyone else find being an embedded / naturalistic agent disturbing?
Like, I could be injected with a chemical that would cause my cells to make new proteins, which could alter my brain.
It could change the algorithm that this body is running.
Like, I could be injected with a chemical that would cause my cells to make new proteins, which could alter my brain.
It could change the algorithm that this body is running.
Which, from a computational theory of identity, is to say that you could inject me with a chemical that would delete ME, and replace me with someone else.
That's horrifying. It feels like one of the things that "shouldn't be allowed".
Not that I can just be annihilated by having my head crushed (bad enough), but that it is possible for me to be taken over from the inside, by some kind of brain-controlling parasite.
theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
I don't like it.
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