[ExI] Let's play What If.

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Thu Nov 11 22:29:23 UTC 2010


2010/11/12 Alan Grimes <agrimes at speakeasy.net>:

> Stick a few electrodes on my skull and you'll see my EEG, you can even
> determine my state of consciousness from it. Combining that with
> anatomical evidence, you can prove that a brain is a person.

There is no way, even in theory, to prove that a given collection of
matter is conscious.

> If you do the same to a computer you will not be able to detect any
> differences except for the general level of computational activity,
> which has no inherent relationship to the state of the upload.

Are you claiming there is no correlation between the electrical
activity in a computer and the computations it is carrying out?


-- 
Stathis Papaioannou



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