{"id":188875,"date":"2024-05-08T07:25:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T12:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/some-problems-of-the-very-intuitive-evolutionary-emergentist-paradigm-trying-to-explain-consciousness-from-neurons"},"modified":"2024-05-08T07:25:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T12:25:04","slug":"some-problems-of-the-very-intuitive-evolutionary-emergentist-paradigm-trying-to-explain-consciousness-from-neurons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/some-problems-of-the-very-intuitive-evolutionary-emergentist-paradigm-trying-to-explain-consciousness-from-neurons","title":{"rendered":"Some problems of the very intuitive evolutionary emergentist paradigm trying to explain consciousness from neurons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/some-problems-of-the-very-intuitive-evolutionary-emergentist-paradigm-trying-to-explain-consciousness-from-neurons2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some problems of the very intuitive evolutionary emergentist paradigm trying to explain consciousness from neurons, thanks to <a class=\"\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn: li: activity:7171144219015819265\/#\" data-entity-urn=\"urn: li: fs_miniProfile:ACoAAAgiHBQBfhtbfAOkv-NJuP9pOmp-5vp52rQ\" data-guid=\"2\" data-object-urn=\"urn: li: member:136453140\" data-original-text=\"Andr\u00e9s G\u00f3mez Emilsson\" data-test-ql-mention=\"true\">Andr\u00e9s G\u00f3mez Emilsson<\/a> and Chris Percy at <a class=\"\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn: li: activity:7171144219015819265\/#\" data-entity-urn=\"urn: li: fs_miniCompany:19204939\" data-guid=\"3\" data-object-urn=\"urn: li: company:19204939\" data-original-text=\"Qualia Research Institute\" data-test-ql-mention=\"true\">Qualia Research Institute<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSlicing Problem\u201d is a thought experiment that raises questions for substrate-neutral computational theories of consciousness, particularly, in functionalist approaches.<\/p>\n<p>The thought experiment uses water-based logic gates to construct a computer in a way that permits cleanly slicing each gate and connection in half, creating two identical computers each instantiating the same computation. The slicing can be reversed and repeated via an on\/off switch, without changing the amount of matter in the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some problems of the very intuitive evolutionary emergentist paradigm trying to explain consciousness from neurons, thanks to Andr\u00e9s G\u00f3mez Emilsson and Chris Percy at Qualia Research Institute: The \u201cSlicing Problem\u201d is a thought experiment that raises questions for substrate-neutral computational theories of consciousness, particularly, in functionalist approaches. The thought experiment uses water-based logic gates to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}