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What happens when we replace our brains with synthetic parts? Do we lose motivation for doing anything?

>> No.4335408

Doing what?

>> No.4335413

>>4335408
Anything. You know, like I said before.

The only motivation we have for doing things right now is chemical.

>> No.4335415

>>4335413
So you're implying that we'll become machines with no motivation to be and kill ourselves?

>> No.4335418

>>4335415
No, just no human motivation to do human things.

That's not a bad thing though.

>> No.4335423

We would only do things out of pure reason. Which is good.

>> No.4335430

it depends on how these synthetic parts are programmed/made.

>> No.4335439

First of all, why would you elect to have it done in the first place, OP? Barring catastrophic brain damage which would surely be fatal, why would you want it?

>> No.4335477

>>4335407
>Do we lose motivation for doing anything?

More importantly how is that different from now OP?

>> No.4335480

>Do we lose motivation for doing anything?
Nope
>We would only do things out of pure reason.
Nope
>it depends on how these synthetic parts are programmed/made.
Nope

Everything would be just the way it was. Some motivations would change depending on whether or not it affects neural suffusion.

>> No.4335509

>>4335480
Assuming, of course, that technology had advanced to the point of being capable of bioengineering brain mass which is an exact replica of the original brain's functions down to the neural level. I don't see it happening for a total brain transplant.

However, I do see it as being feasible for perhaps replacing certain portions of the brain at a time. For instance, it would obviously be possible to keep a patient on full life support in order to transplant an artificial section of brain stem and I would even accept having one...but I would not trust having an artificial frontal lobe.

>> No.4335527

>>4335509

>Assuming, of course, that technology had advanced to the point of being capable of bioengineering brain mass which is an exact replica of the original brain's functions down to the neural level. I don't see it happening for a total brain transplant.

Yeah ok buddy, bioengineering brain mass.

>> No.4335531

>>4335527
Poor wording aside, I'm fixated on the thought that an artificial frontal lobe is a bad idea, and seems to lean toward OP's original topic.

>> No.4335577

>>4335477
this
I don't even have motivation for shit now, how would I lose it?

>> No.4335625

These discussions get more ridiculous every time. Is it so hard to understand that just because something is artificial it isn't incapable of feeling and motivation?

>> No.4335647

>>4335625
Blame hollywood and b-class writers. It's a cliché that machines do not have emotions.

Even the droids in Star Wars are often described as being emotionless and confused about biological emotions. And in the same stories, they are still depicted as highly emotional.

Too bad it's usually the more complex(and thus, usually less-well known) books where artificial personas have emotions. Compare almost anything produced by hollywood to, for example, Mike from The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.

>> No.4335661

>>4335423
How will everyone becoming aspies be good exactly?

>> No.4335667

>>4335661
>implying aspies are reasonable

>> No.4335721

Everything that we currently use chemical signals for could simply be replaced with electrical signals.

>> No.4335736

>>4335423
Good for whom? And what judges being rational to be good? Maybe that underlying motivation, which is organic, by any chance?

>> No.4335754

>>4335736

>Maybe that underlying motivation, which is organic

Motivation is an abstract concept and as such is substrate-independent.

>> No.4335758

>>4335736
I think that asking what he means by "rational" would hit the problem more squarely.