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by visarga 14 days ago
> There's no possible experience of the world there. No input other than a bunch of imperfect labels we created for stuff.

The brain too sits locked inside a bone box and only gets a bundle of unlabeled nerves connecting it to the outside. How can the brain could possibly experience anything, it only sees patters and patterns of patterns never the real thing?

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> a bundle of unlabeled nerves connecting it to the outside

As a species, we do need to up our cable management skills. We're likely not getting augmented humans until we get there.

a bone box.. with eyes and 100 million nerve endings to experience the world...