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Kolanaki ,
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Neat. We’ve seen a man with a brain half eaten by a worm, and now we get to see brains made of worms.

HeckGazer ,

Why is this post not marked NSFW(not safe for worms)?

cabron_offsets ,

Is this like an RFK joke or some shit?

kitnaht ,

I bet this one could run for President.

flerp ,

RFK sweating bullets

Tylerdurdon ,

He should feel like a proud papa. Hell, they should call it RFK jr.

OpenStars ,
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That’s all very well and good and all, until it meets another worm and wants to talk. Perhaps one of the opposite gender…

nondescripthandle ,

Oh neat, we can give Legos depression.

SpaceNoodle ,

Can worms be depressed?

NegativeInf ,

Yes.

AmidFuror ,

To subterranean levels.

can ,

This article is 9 years old. Here’s the OpenWorm Wikipedia page.

Edit: still haven’t mapped the brain but here’s the official site and [the github] (github.com/openworm/OpenWorm)

octopus_ink ,

Well that sent me down an interesting but short rabbithole wormhole, ending here. Glad to see I’m not alone in thinking most forms of consciousness copy or transfer that get discussed are actually involving murder/death of the original, even if the resulting copy believes itself to be the same entity and people around it treat it as such.

I’d absolutely be one of those “I ain’t getting in that transporter” people on Star Trek unless convinced that it truly was a transfer of consciousness, not a copy and destroy.

Mind you, I’d love for that not to be the case, and would love to be convinced otherwise. It kills my enjoyment of stories that are centered around that sort of technology sometimes.

Mind uploading may potentially be accomplished by either of two methods: copy-and-upload or copy-and-delete by gradual replacement of neurons (which can be considered as a gradual destructive uploading), until the original organic brain no longer exists and a computer program emulating the brain takes control of the body.

Oddly, the bolded ship-of-Theseus kind of approach doesn’t bother me as much - maybe because it feels akin to the continuous death and replacement of individual cells, but if challenged I might have a hard time defending why this bothers me so much less than the Transporter or even Altered Carbon approach.

can ,

I was led into the Connectome page which I found quite interesting

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/DTI-sagittal-fibers.jpg

Tractographic reconstruction of neural connections via DTI

Warl0k3 ,

You’re coming at this from a slightly askew angle. Consciousness is holographic - that is, it’s complex behavior arising in the interaction of a more complex system. There’s nothing “more” to it than what we see. The transporters from startrek, which destroy then reproduce exactly, would change nothing about your experience. You’re just a complex arrangement of atoms, and it doesnt matter where that arrangement occurs so long as it’s unique. There is no “you”, there’s just “stuff” stuck together in a way that lets it think that it can think about itself. A perfect reproduction would result in the same entity, perfectly reproduced.

Telorand ,

Beware the T0.001

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