I think I read somewhere that phantom limb syndrome is caused by the neural connections in the brain that were devoted to motor functions and sensations still remaining even when the limb is gone.
It does raise the question, if such connections were somehow exactly replicated, would an AI be conscious of a limb? What about an entire body? If all sensation could be replicated, could we make a “human” AI entirely in a digital environment? After all, our human brains are just meat computers interpreting electrical signals from our bodies, I can’t imagine they’re impossible to reproduce artificially.
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I think I read somewhere that phantom limb syndrome is caused by the neural connections in the brain that were devoted to motor functions and sensations still remaining even when the limb is gone.
It does raise the question, if such connections were somehow exactly replicated, would an AI be conscious of a limb? What about an entire body? If all sensation could be replicated, could we make a “human” AI entirely in a digital environment? After all, our human brains are just meat computers interpreting electrical signals from our bodies, I can’t imagine they’re impossible to reproduce artificially.