Do brains make minds, or do minds make brains? Recent approaches to AI have begun exploring the idea that not only do minds need brains, they need bodies as well. Disembodied thought may be impossible. The linked article takes an interesting tangent on the mind-brain problem by giving a preview of how our brains might adapt to being 're-embodied' in some other form. Sure to be of interest to gamers, but perhaps also to the most philosophically-minded.
"Becoming an avatar in virtual reality, as a full-bodied human (or even nonhuman), has the potential to be vastly more interesting and important than one would expect from a technological amusement. What is really going on is the opening up of a new frontier of human potential, which can be called 'somatic cognition'—somatic meaning 'of the body.'"
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