I don’t believe uploads would be conscious, but let’s put that aside for a moment… Suppose long-range connections were somehow added to an already adult brain that had lacked them. Do your cognitive models say anything about what the effects would be?
I think everything would be fine. I don’t see any issues. As long as the relevant learning rates is set to more than zero, I think the cortical learning algorithm would “do its thing”, and it would learn newer better predictive models that bring together spatially-distant information streams, and all the schizophrenia symptoms (including cognitive) would gradually go away.
Do you agree that with sufficiently advanced technology, this would be possible?
With sufficiently advanced technology, we can upload everyone to whole-brain-emulations, and then add or subtract whatever connections we want :)
I don’t believe uploads would be conscious, but let’s put that aside for a moment… Suppose long-range connections were somehow added to an already adult brain that had lacked them. Do your cognitive models say anything about what the effects would be?
I think everything would be fine. I don’t see any issues. As long as the relevant learning rates is set to more than zero, I think the cortical learning algorithm would “do its thing”, and it would learn newer better predictive models that bring together spatially-distant information streams, and all the schizophrenia symptoms (including cognitive) would gradually go away.