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Consciousness traced to specific clusters of nerve cells in the brain (archive.is)

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Researchers have mapped how clusters of nerve cells in the brain connect to regulate wakefulness, which could open doors to new treatments for people in comas

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[–] A_A 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When consciousness is understood well enough it will be replicated in AI (artificial intelligence).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Blue Ocean Event will happen long before that, I don't think we have much to worry about from ai gaining consciousness.

[–] A_A 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blue Ocean Event is Arctic_sea_ice_decline at Wikipedia ...

it's a good thing that we fear bad things of the future so we can fight to avoid them. Then maybe we can have (somewhat) good artificial consciousness.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Another 5 years as hot as this one and we will have no polar ice caps left.

The Blue Ocean Event is imminent.

Unless someone invents time travel and returns to the 1800's to stop the industrial revolution harnessing fossil fuels, we're going extinct.

Don't Look Up and keep recycling tho, you're doing great!

[–] A_A 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Our universe forbids time travel which, in this case, is tragic & a failure of consciousness.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, humanity is getting what it deserves.

If anything it's ironically altruistic that we're removing ourselves from the universe like this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The absolute majority of people on this planet have almost no impact on carbon emissions and even under those that do have an impact, there is an incredibly strong disparity. Its not "humanity" doing this, vasts amounts of humanity have zero influence on it.