<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 4:24 AM, Stathis Papaioannou <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stathisp@gmail.com" target="_blank">stathisp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><div><br></div>The idea is not to copy behaviour as such but to model the components. An engineer can take a component from a machine, put it through a series of tests, and make a replacement component from perhaps completely different parts that, if done properly, should work just like the original when installed - even if the exact way the machine works is unknown.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>### Well, this is getting a bit tricky here - if you don't know what the machine is doing, how do you know your tests of its components capture the relevant features you need to put into your replacement part? If you feel that the brain is there to produce heat, you may end up making a 100 watt space heater and miss the point. </div><div><br></div><div>The modeling procedure has to capture the informational content that is being manipulated by the machine and then you have to be able to separate the incidental physical aspects of the substrate that performs computations, to make physically different yet computationally sufficiently similar components. We are assuming that an uploading procedure will have to do just that, and I do think that it is feasible, and any upload that reasonably faithfully reprises the computational structure of the original will experience qualia.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafał </div></div>
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