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Re:Mechanical Turing Machine in Wood (2015) by coffeeaddicted on Friday July 21, 2017 @09:22AM (#14820268)
Maybe you can then use slow-motion videos of neurons firing to also illustrate why humans aren't really conscious despite other claims.
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Re:Mechanical Turing Machine in Wood (2015) by 52-6F-62 on Friday July 21, 2017 @10:44AM (#14820902)
This. It seems like the commenter who posted this point lacks some fundamental knowledge of how the brain operates.

For all he knows, it is conscious. But the time scale and size limit it's faculties to a degree [to put it mildly] far too removed from the ability of our senses to perceive.

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