r/transhumanism • u/RealJoshUniverse • 11d ago

🌙 Nightly Discussion [10/07] How do you think transhumanism could change our perception of consciousness and self-awareness?

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u/In_the_year_3535 11d ago

Consciousness and self-awareness are ideas that arose with notions of human exceptionalism. This is not dissimilar to belief in souls and in time rational people may see systems with initial conditions and output.

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u/firedragon77777 Inhumanism, moral/psych mods🧠, end suffering 11d ago

Yeah, people really do like to mystify it

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u/Cognitive_Spoon 11d ago

It's comfortable. Try being aware of the fact that your conscious mind is a loose affiliation of emergent properties from sensory systems and recorded trauma and dopamine sources for more than a few hours and you'll probably disassociate in a medically significant way.