{"id":3029,"date":"2015-09-10T19:41:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T19:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2015-09-10T19:41:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T19:41:23","slug":"coalescing-minds-brain-uploading-related-group-mind-scenarios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/10\/coalescing-minds-brain-uploading-related-group-mind-scenarios\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Coalescing minds: Brain uploading-related group mind scenarios&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We present a hypothetical process of mind coalescence, where artificial connections are<br \/>\ncreated between two or more brains. This might simply allow for an improved form of<br \/>\ncommunication. At the other extreme, it might merge the minds into one in a process<br \/>\nthat can be thought of as a reverse split-brain operation. We propose that one way mind<br \/>\ncoalescence might happen is via an exocortex, a prosthetic extension of the biological<br \/>\nbrain which integrates with the brain as seamlessly as parts of the biological brain<br \/>\nintegrate with each other. An exocortex may also prove to be the easiest route for mind<br \/>\nuploading, as a person\u2019s personality gradually moves away from the aging biological brain<br \/>\nand onto the exocortex. Memories might also be copied and shared even without minds<br \/>\nbeing permanently merged.\u00a0 Over time, the borders of personal identity may become<br \/>\nloose or even unnecessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/philpapers.org\/rec\/SOTCMB\">Published<\/a> in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/philpapers.org\/rec\/SOTCMB\">International Journal of Machine Consciousness<\/a>, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Full text (PDF) <a href=\"http:\/\/kajsotala.fi\/Papers\/CoalescingMinds.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We present a hypothetical process of mind coalescence, where artificial connections are created between two or more brains. This might simply allow for an improved form of communication. At the other extreme, it might merge the minds into one in a process that can be thought of as a reverse split-brain operation. We propose that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-MR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3030,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions\/3030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}