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Re:4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles by retina_sam on Monday November 21, 2016 @11:25PM (#13011624)
> If that's a theory he has there, then you imply god and the spirit are not a theory

That's just lazy. You can't shift the burden of proof on me when OP was the one making the extraordinary claim (sufficiently sophisticated synapse simulations are guaranteed to result in emergent strong AI). If you want to demand proof of my claims, you'll need to post your demands to the comment in which I made the extraordinary claim.

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Re:4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles by city41 on Monday November 21, 2016 @11:33PM (#13011650)
If you're going to dodge the question on a technicality, then frankly you're not worth the time.
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Re:4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles by andrepd on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @01:42PM (#13016356)
The existence of god is an extraordinary claim. The claim that replicating a brain at the molecular level will reproduce the behaviour of a brain is not an extraordinary claim. It's not even a claim, it's a fact.
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