/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15487445
>consciousness is just the word that refers to meat software,
a) I prefer "mind" to "consciousness", which is essentially an equivocation fallacy.
b) No matter what you call it, we have a fairly good understanding of how "meat software" works.

People who harp on "the hard problem of consciousness" are mostly trying to imbue the human mind with some kind of immaterial properties. Probably because they find being "just a bunch of atoms" to be degrading?

>>9024832
>are you suggesting that people who abhor work would enjoy living in a newly founded colony on another planet?
No, I'm suggesting a lot of people never go outdoors.
And not just neets. There's a fuckton of people that never leave the city, and would be just as happy living their lives out in some underground city on any world.

>>8994016
>Is the job of the future a biomechanical engineer
Even without the singularity, I tell my grandson: "by the time you're twenty, the only two jobs available will be robot repairman and real human waiter."
Then again, I'm an incurable smartass.
But who knows? I could be perfectly right.

>>8992680
>Natural selection and population expansion would mean that if intelligent life existed it should have colonized nearly every star by now.
Nope.
Most of the stars in the galaxy are red dwarfs.
Most of the rocky exoplanets we've discovered are superterran, and probably have gravity much higher than Earth's.
Any number of star-empires might exist, but if none of the m are comfy living here, they wouldn't have colonized Earth.
Or maybe we're a "nature preserve".
Or maybe several star empires are too busy fighting each other to colonize every last planet.
Or maybe our star-fairing neighbors are more responsible than locusts.
Or a thousand other possible reasons.