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Originally Posted by David Bailey More generally, is it reasonable to expect a computer program to have any side effects - like feeling pain - as it grinds its way to an answer. |
Only if the mechanism and its programming support the processes that produce pain. Certainly not as an epiphenomenon.
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People have to choose between accepting the idea that a computer simulation of a brain (or entire body) would be equivalent to the real thing, or rejecting the idea (my position).
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Why do I have to choose at this point in time?
~~ Paul