🧵 The Science of Identity and our Sense of Self
Anonymous at Sat, 4 May 2024 15:22:46 UTC No. 16159155
I was watching Fox News's show Outnumbered and they were about to discuss this scientific news about how AI can make you believe that you're another person. Stupidly, OJ Simpson had to pass away at that exact moment and so they covered that instead of that news about AI... as if I give two fucks about that fat, old, washed up, murderer. It's a travesty because they never got to discussing that part about AI.
So I have no idea what they were talking about. Do any of you /sci/ people know anything about AI making you believe you're in somebody else's body?
Anddo you think there will ever be a day where we can transfer the conciousness of one person into another? Say you have a comatoes patient that is brain dead but with a healthy body and another patient who has a terminal illness and doesn't have much longer to live, could they transfer the mind of the dying patient into the comatose one as a sort of "body" donor progam?
And just for fun, if you could be anyone else other than yourself who would you be?
>How 'swapping bodies' with a friend changes our sense of self
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas
>Some people think machine intelligence will transform humanity for the better. Others fear it may destroy us. Who will decide our fate?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/
Anonymous at Sat, 4 May 2024 15:45:52 UTC No. 16159194
>>16159155
I like to get all of my scientific news right from the source, from Fox News.
Anonymous at Sat, 4 May 2024 16:09:00 UTC No. 16159231
Your self-concept is constructed with feedback you get from interacting with others. In other words: you see yourself in the manner others relate to you. Since your interactions change your self-concept is always changing whether or not the others are AI.
Anonymous at Sat, 4 May 2024 16:17:58 UTC No. 16159246
>>16159155
>Unironic boomer news watcher
>Their bumbo jumbo grift skid is swapped for community gossip about muh eggball player
>Comes to /sci/ to unironically blog about it
Imagine thinking like this
Anonymous at Sat, 4 May 2024 16:33:13 UTC No. 16159269
>>16159246
>Wah wah someone is talking about science news on my science board
just up already reddit
Anonymous at Sat, 4 May 2024 16:33:57 UTC No. 16159271
>>16159231
>ignores the possibility of self-construction through not interacting with others
many such cases
Anonymous at Sat, 4 May 2024 16:48:21 UTC No. 16159286
>>16159271
Give an example of a self-description that is not relative.
Anonymous at Sat, 4 May 2024 16:51:02 UTC No. 16159287
>>16159286
the aesthetics of my subjective experience
Anonymous at Sat, 4 May 2024 17:01:46 UTC No. 16159298
>>16159246
What is an eggballs player?
And who doesn't love eggs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCG
Anonymous at Sat, 4 May 2024 18:24:03 UTC No. 16159393
>>16159155
The mind and the brain are the same thing. Brain transplants are technically possible, but pretty much impossible in practice.
Anonymous at Sat, 4 May 2024 18:47:25 UTC No. 16159415
>>16159393
Yet no one has been able to explain consciousness aka the mind.
Anonymous at Sat, 4 May 2024 21:37:54 UTC No. 16159658
>>16159393
A TV remote with and without batteries are the same thing.
Anonymous at Sat, 4 May 2024 21:46:31 UTC No. 16159674
>>16159415
There is nothing to explain. The brain is just a bag of chemicals, and the mind is the resultant observed behavour of those chemical reactions.