Thread:User talk:Armondikov/Philosophy of chemistry/reply (9)

If you take the view that intelligence and consciousness of the human brain requires a body (which was the only part of the recent Horizon documentary on AI that interested me and didn't seem to completely get things apparently ass-backwards) then, yeah, toes kinda are. Because if the mind is de-localised around the brain - as opposed to just being a homunculus shaped point mass in the pineal gland - then why is it not possibly to de-localise it through the whole nervous system? Sensations and experiences are removed if you lose part of your body.

Of course, that's mostly bullshitting, but I figure is a good track to take if you want to convince people that we're all connected by magic!