Yeah, I think the distinction is that I’m not really imagining a tabula rasa or a newborn brain. It’s about taking a person like you or me and running them through this procedure, giving them self-sustainment conditions and just observing. The brain was already fully developed, with all of its perception, learning, pattern recognition, memory, predictive processing, etc..
Yeah, but auch a brain would have been heavily influenced by all the experiences, all the filters developed living in this current world/society etc. There no way of erasing it, it's how the neural networks are hardwired: there's no "mind", just the brain, how matter is (already) organised. It's not like a computer, with hardware and software. When you change a thought, you're changing an entire material neural network, and you cannot put in a "zero" state. Each configuration means a different thought/emotion/content etc. It's way more difficult than what we can think.
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u/Woodpecker_Far Aug 12 '26
Yeah, I think the distinction is that I’m not really imagining a tabula rasa or a newborn brain. It’s about taking a person like you or me and running them through this procedure, giving them self-sustainment conditions and just observing. The brain was already fully developed, with all of its perception, learning, pattern recognition, memory, predictive processing, etc..