We may be on the brink of fundamentally surpassing our supposed limits. There is no reason why the complex information processing at the core of human experience should continue to be unique to one biological implementation, the human brain. Neuroscientists believe that moving the functions of minds from brains to other types of materials to become substrate-independent minds (SIMs) might be feasible.
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