<div class="gmail_quote">On 23 December 2011 15:29, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 2011-12-23 14:55, Stefano Vaj wrote:<br>
</div>Assuming it is cheap to squeeze it in. Lab life support technology isn't that cheap or reliable.<br></blockquote><div><br>An office with a desk is an admittedly primitive, but rather effective, life support technology, and you can squeeze in it a human being quite easily. :-)<br>
<br>Of course, I deliberately implied that I was referring to a brain, or parts thereof, in a vial positioned within a cabinet or rack of silicon processors, and connected through a neural interface.<br><br>But does it really have to be case? How would a "fyborg" system of a hypothetically identical performance put in a black box be distinguishable from the "cyborg" system you assumed I was discussing or for that matter from a fully "artificial" one? And what would prevent such a system from achieving an identical performance?<br>
</div><br></div>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>