<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv8654815786"><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv8654815786gmail_extra"><div class="yiv8654815786gmail_quote"><blockquote class="yiv8654815786gmail_quote" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><div>Kelly,</div><div><br></div><div>>>Neuroscience is still in its infancy, but one day
we will understand the biological processes that cause consciousness. With that information, we will perhaps be in a position to synthesize a brain. </div><div><br></div><div>>Why the big argument then? That is all anyone else here has said. Isn't it?</div><div><br></div><div>The debate concerns the possibilities of digitally simulated brains, not the possibilities of synthetic brains. I don't know exactly what synthetic brains will look like, but I feel pretty certain that they won't look much like what we currently call digital computers.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="y_msg_container">Gordon</div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>