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Of or related to consciousness - the state of being self-aware.
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Scientifically Understandable Souls?
Expanded conservation of energy.
The atoms making a living body and a dead body are the same.
The only difference between a living body and a dead body (immediately after death) can be accounted o …
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How plausible would a self-aware, conscious viral life-form be?
There is no agreement among scientists if virus are life forms at all, because they are basically just a proteic capsule containing nucleic acid. In order to reproduce they need to hijack some other c …
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Can the future theoretically be predicted through analyzing the exact patterns of the universe?
What you are asking was a kind of faith some times ago, a faith called determinism:
Determinism is the philosophical theory that all events, including moral choices, are completely determined by prev …
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It there any conceivable way nanomachines could turn a brain into a semi-organic grey goo, p...
Assuming that you know/understand how the large scale interaction of millions of neurons can make consciousness surface (and this is an assumption larger than mount Everest, since we are far from it), …
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Interacting with a sapient swarm intelligence
if one swarm comes close to another, the intelligences merge into a single whole, and only split if enough members of the new swarm move out of communication range
I am not sure such intelligence wo …
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Can teleportation using the reassembly of atoms preserve consciousness and therefore identity?
For what we know, consciousness emerges from the neural activity, which in itself is a complex interaction of quantum states of all the molecules involved at neuron level. … If your alien is capable of replicating the being A into a being A' which is exactly the same even at quantum level, it reasonable to assume that also the consciousness arising from those quantum states …