- Suppose you think brains are conscious - Then do you think sufficiently accurate computer simulations of brains are conscious? - Since a computer is basically a giant abacus, do you then think sufficiently large abacuses are conscious?
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yes for sure
Unclear if this is a joke, but a computer which can accurately simulate the brain is no longer just a giant abacus, in the same way that my brain is no longer just a giant mass of cells Things can take on emergent properties at scale/complexity
I want to talk to someone thats like 'of course brain-matter isnt a privileged substrate, others work too... but the abacus in particular is obviously a disprivileged one'
Yes, but the abacus has to be actually physically large, like ten stories high with huge beads that take 50 strong men to lift them.