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So I'm writing my final on cognition and impact of technology on consciousness and so on, and there are so many thought experiments like "what if you woke up and part of you was a machine! How would you feel then? Who would you be!' with this gotcha attitude turning on the presumption of identity being dependent on physical attributes. And I'm like ... this isn't actually revelatory? Like, people are going around every day with pacemakers and cochlear implants and prosthetic limbs, and they're cogitating just fine, pal. We don't actually need to look far to find cyborgs.

Also, when the thought experiment is about the extent to which ones consciousness can inhabit a body it doesn't perfectly match? Buddy I am trans as the day is long, and I'm just trucking along here. That's dysmorphia you're describing. It's not new. We get by. We're making it work.

There are good arguments out there, there are so many experiments that are actually interesting. I'm enjoying my papers, and getting the work done. But the prevalence of these low-investment arguments is a grind.

Also, cylons are Swamp People and I am GONNA make that point somewhere in one of these papers so help me lmao