[ExI] Digital Consciousness

[Gordon]

Ben Zaiboc <bbenzai at yahoo.com> wrote:


> As I keep saying (and you keep ignoring), something doesn't have to be digital for a digital computer to compute it. 

I'm not ignoring you, Ben. I just think that the answer is yes, it is trivially true that there is some description of the brain such that we could do a digital simulation of it.  Church's thesis applies to brains; their operations are in principle computable. We can also create digital simulations of rain storms. This too is trivial. Nobody actually gets wet from those digital rain drops.

Gordon
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