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Re:4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles by Florin_Andrei on Monday November 21, 2016 @06:13PM (#13010176)
> What's so hard about that?

Maybe the little inconvenient fact that we don't really know anything about how consciousness works?

Not talking about intelligence - that nut appears to be cracking open these days. I'm talking about consciousness.

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Re:4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles by duaneb on Monday November 21, 2016 @06:17PM (#13010211)
Not everyone—myself included—believe in it at all. I see 0 reason a marble machine can't believe itself conscious as much as humans do.
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Re:4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles by rosalinekarr on Monday November 21, 2016 @06:21PM (#13010235)
[What is consciousness?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjfaoe847qQ)
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