[ExI] Coherent vs. Incoherent Fears of Being Uploaded

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Thu Jan 21 14:43:46 UTC 2010


2010/1/21 Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com>:
> Computers can count, but I really doubt that they have
> anything like my feeling.

Yes, but this is also true for fruitflies (organic brains, no doubt),
bats (mammals!), chimps, men informed by a different worldview and
cultural background, and ultimately even member of your family, whose
"feelings" you would never be able to experience first-hand,

All that is therefore materially irrelevant for the discussion
"organic brains deal with information in ways that are qualitatively
different from other systems".

-- 
Stefano Vaj



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