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Re:4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles by andyjohnson0 on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @04:33AM (#13012877)
> I contend that without a spirit, no such AI will emerge.

A couple of questions seem to fall out of this:

1. If an AI would not emerge from a high-fidelity whole-brain simulation, then what, in your theory, would emerge? How would you characterise it?

2. How would you determine that what emerges is or is not intelligent? In other words, how would you determine whether or not your theory had been falsified?

3. If an AI actually had a spirit (adopting your definition), would you have a way to recognise this?

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