<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 8, 2026, 4:10 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Now, this seems VERY cool:<br>
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<a href="https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/the-first-multi-behavior-brain-upload" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/the-first-multi-behavior-brain-upload</a></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Absolutely incredible!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This removes from philosophy one of the three possible objections to functionalism:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><s>1. Emulations of brains aren't possible</s></div><div dir="auto">2. Emulations of brains aren't conscious </div><div dir="auto">3. Emulations of brains are differently conscious</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This result rules out #1. which includes a wide class of theories, such as those that claim non computable physics or other non-algorithmic processes or quantum weirdness is required for the brain to function as it does. E.g. the microtubule / quantum gravity theories, by Hameroff and Penrose, and perhaps some versions of panpsychism or intrinsicist physicalism that would deny the possibility of functional equivalence without actually employing real physical particles having special properties than manifest in behavioral differences.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Perhaps the biggest piece of news relating to philosophy of mind in many decades.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Next we need those with functionally equivalent neural prosthetics who report no qualitative differences in their subjective qualia, which again may come soon.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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