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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 10:46:54 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: after Gerald Moore

See below.
 
My question is not whether a simulation could be "intelligent" but whether  
it could have feeling or life-as-we-know-it. This is not a matter of 
accuracy of  simulation, but whether a mere collection of symbols can have 
consciousness. It  seems very clear to me that it cannot.
 
Robert Ettinger
Message  #32911
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From:  Gerald Monroe <>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 04:17:47  -0500
Subject: Re: CryoNet #32905 -  #32910

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The arguments against  uploading assume that we would need a perfect
simulation of the physics of  the human brain in order for the uploaded
entity to be intelligent and a  reasonable facsimile of the uploaded
personality.  Nothing could be  farther from the case.

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