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I'm going to address your sentiment point by point.
> one thing about this idea that kind of bugs me is what aspect of neurochimerism is meant to help with the development of new emotion, or if it's just related to the whole "liquid math" thing.
The Immortal Poor short story has a premise.
>https://abusiveoracle.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-immortal-poor.html
> "Beneath the fierce surface lied a carefully measured blend of human, ant, bear, tiger shark, and orangutan neurology."
What emotion would such neurochimera have? What morality would it conclude? What laws would then be derived from that morality?
> I'm guessing it's related to the neanderthal pocket brain and how it can be used to learn more about organic computation
"Organic computation" is a misnomer. I don't intend to make these brains a variant of the silicon wafer. Biology does not engage in organic computation. It engages in compressional representation. Silicon obsesses over the now. Biology obsesses over the symbols of now. Two very different approaches.
> what happens if we learn that animals use the same emotional constants as us, just with different stimuli, desires and environmental requirements?
As soon as you intuitively understand the emotional motivations of termintes, bees, seagulls, and lizards, you'll figure it out. :D
Categorizing emotions to the point you can envision an "emotional constant" will leave you perplexed. The only emotional constant between species that I can find is that the neuron does not go through mitosis. It's a micro factor that leads to all of the realities we have today, but knowing that is like knowing atomic numbers and calculating how that affects stock market pricing.
>I feel like there's an ideological fraction point between maximizing the sheer computational power of a genetically modified brain and the more philosophical impacts on what such changes could mean for humanity as a whole
There is. Middle class spoiled white liberal ideology is obsessed with propagating nonsensical Operation Mockingbird mythology, which is designed to maximize access to cheap labor to undermine unionization.
These bourgeoisie elements exist for the sole purpose of being manipulated and twisted into whatever outcome is required. They are human in DNA relation only and cannot be redeemed, spiritually or ideologically. They were raised to believe in the mythology completely and can never deescalate from their cult programming. All one can do is give them false crusades to expend energy upon and direct them to eternally tilt at windmills.
Do not feel pity for them. Once the deepfakes go industrial, they will be trapped in the interface of a subjective ideological utopia and exhaust themselves and their resources until the genes responsible for their predilection of moral supremacy are extinguished from the universe once and for all.
> The human brain is this fragile squishy thing and what constitutes a human mind is even more fragile still, it's so fuzzy and situational and propped up by senses that are getting more destabilized by technology each day.
Not only propped up by the senses, but also by two billion years of bare-knuckle deathmatch neural evolution. It's only "squishy" to the rigorous demands of an ultra-mechanized society.
> The only allegory that makes sense to me when talking about this is that the mind is like a liquid that takes the shape of the container (brain) it's in
Even liquid has structural biases that have to be accounted for. The brain is no different. It's structural bias is two billion years old.
> I feel sorry for later generations, where technological developments in genetic engineering can be a real reason for people to doubt their own humanity. It's already bad enough that so many old ideological contants that were there to make the simple feel at peace have been broken down into meaningless slurry.
They won't know any different. People won't doubt their humanity because they will be so submerged in consumer genetic commodities that the idea of baseline human existence will be repulsive to them.
Account for the tsunami that is coming.
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