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Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by mesozoic on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @01:30PM (#10981893)
It will of course be simulated. Without getting too metaphysical the question of whether there is anything beyond computation is at this point largely spiritual. There are also reasonable arguments that all of reality as we know it is one large simulation. http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by erichocean on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @04:21PM (#10983508)
I'm not so sure that there's a fundamental difference between "simulating" consciousness and actually having consciousness.