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<blockquote data-quote="JTL" data-source="post: 814948" data-attributes="member: 49289"><p>Consciousness – how can a kilogram or so of nerve cells conjure up the seamless kaleidoscope of sensations, thoughts and emotions that occupy our every waking moment.</p><p>If I could take a human brain put it in a jar and keep it alive by feeding it all the right nutrients etc and wire up all the important stuff to a powerful computer could I create a reality for that brain ... that person inside that brain?</p><p>I could feed images sounds smells and physical sensations of being on a warm beach.</p><p>Memories of a family and a job in a far off place that it must return to tomorrow as the week at the beach is coming to an end.</p><p>The sensations and the belief and the entire experience of getting on the plane arriving back home smelling the fresh cut grass confronting lifes problems but first ... take the dog for a walk and then have a meal and a beer .... yet all the time the brain ... the consciousness ... the person is really encased in a glass jar on a laboratory table.</p><p>If I were a scientist I'd like to do that stuff.</p><p>Yes I'd be a mad scientist with wild white hair and a maniacal laugh.</p><p>I bet most of you would feel sorry for the person in the jar ..... even though he just won the lottery and and life was just humming along nicely ....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JTL, post: 814948, member: 49289"] Consciousness – how can a kilogram or so of nerve cells conjure up the seamless kaleidoscope of sensations, thoughts and emotions that occupy our every waking moment. If I could take a human brain put it in a jar and keep it alive by feeding it all the right nutrients etc and wire up all the important stuff to a powerful computer could I create a reality for that brain ... that person inside that brain? I could feed images sounds smells and physical sensations of being on a warm beach. Memories of a family and a job in a far off place that it must return to tomorrow as the week at the beach is coming to an end. The sensations and the belief and the entire experience of getting on the plane arriving back home smelling the fresh cut grass confronting lifes problems but first ... take the dog for a walk and then have a meal and a beer .... yet all the time the brain ... the consciousness ... the person is really encased in a glass jar on a laboratory table. If I were a scientist I'd like to do that stuff. Yes I'd be a mad scientist with wild white hair and a maniacal laugh. I bet most of you would feel sorry for the person in the jar ..... even though he just won the lottery and and life was just humming along nicely .... [/QUOTE]
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