It appears as if Damien Broderick <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
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|Wouldn't it be fun if we find that nanoneurodes turn us into wonderfully
|superconscious beings who look back on our `natural' life as a stultified
|horror story of inward oppression. (Which, after all, is what people such
|as Greg Egan and Eliezer reckon is likely.)
Replace nanoneurodes with psychotropic substances, such as paroxetine and
mirtazepine, and the above describes the situation for a number of humans
today.
If minor tweaks of neurotransmitters can make major mindquakes, then why
would not nanoneurodes? I can grok that.
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``To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.''
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