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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  Only if the mechanism and its programming support the processes that produce pain. Certainly not as an epiphenomenon. |
Ah, now if you said this about any ordinary process it would make sense - a computer can only generate printout (say) if a printer is attached and there is suitable software available - but pain is supposed to be experienced by the very brain that is being simulated - you can't just shunt this function off!
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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Why do I have to choose at this point in time? |
LOL - well nothing requires you to take a view at all on anything - but I thought you had already accepted this choice - maybe you are having second thoughts!
David