billswift comments on Open Thread, September 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: billswift 02 September 2012 02:30:52PM *  -1 points [-]

The world (including brains) is strictly deterministic. The only source of our mental contents are our genetics and what we are "taught" by our environments (and the interactions between them). The only significant difference between rat and human brains for the purpose of uploading should be the greater capacity and more complex interactions supported by human brains.