On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 11:27 AM Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *while I can't know what it's like to be a bat anymore than a bat can > know what it's like to be me, we can't rule out the existence of > super-states of consciousness, perhaps possessed by Jupiter brains, which > would be able to simultaneously hold in mind and compare different brain > states.* We are enormously more intelligent than an ant but we don't know what it's like to be an ant, and for the same reason I don't see how a Jupiter Brain could know what it's like to be one of us; and becoming more intelligent won't help because that would just make it even more different from us. John K Clark > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv10cuNKFn-mR9U9Fpvq%2BsvFAchQDrdav1c%3DauQq-wBqHQ%40mail.gmail.com.
