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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/09/2025 23:46, Adrian Tymes
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Spike, given how your brain works, and given as you know that porn has
led the commercialization of a lot of tech over the decades (such as
contributing to VHS winning over Betamax), I have to ask: does this
thread's title inspire any thoughts..</pre>
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Thanks, Adrian, for making me snort coffee all over my keyboard!<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/09/2025 23:46, spike wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">If human-like thought processes can be simulated in
silicon, they will be. If anyone can build it, someone will eventually. If
human thought is not substrate dependent, human thought will reside in a
processor of some kind, eventually.</pre>
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But spike, don't you realise, that will just be a <i>simulation</i>!!1!<br>
It won't be real human thought, just a pale, unsatisfactory
imitation that will be exactly the same. Except that, like the storm
simulation, <i>it won't be wet</i>. Inside the computer.<br>
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Oh My Cat (I don't have a Dog), it will be a zombie! Even worse, a
DRY zombie!<br>
(cue Stable Diffusion rendering of a laptop on robotic legs, with an
image of a decomposing, dessicated Max Headroom on the screen,
shuffling after fleeing, screaming humans, extending its ghostly
utility-fog claws, muttering "Brainzzz! Wet Brainzzzz!!")<br>
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<pre>> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap">human thought will reside in a processor of some kind, eventually.</span>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap">Human thought already exists in a processor of some kind. We call it a brain.
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Ben</pre>
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