The Neural Replay Thought Experiment: Exploring the Physical Basis of Phenomenal Consciousness and Intelligence
Camilo Libedinsky preprint
This paper presents an extension of the "neural replay thought experiment" as a heuristic tool for probing the reader’s implicit assumptions regarding the relationship between physical and mental phenomena. By systematically varying the physical instantiation of a recorded neural activity pattern, we aim to elicit divergent intuitions about the persistence of consciousness and intelligence. The...