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Re:Consciousness is a recurrent neural network by visarga on Thursday November 24, 2016 @12:08PM (#13031333)
It would be able to feel pain if it can learn to avoid it. In humans, pain, hunger and other emotions are just reward signals that guide behavior such that we don't die.

It would also need to be embodied and responsible for its own survival, more generally, otherwise it's just a computer running software, in a lack of external context.

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