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Re:Building a fly brain in a computer by d_theorist on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @09:03AM (#18336050)
>If an organic animal can feel pain and it is possible to create a 100% accurate computational simulation of that animal, then the simulated animal must also experience pain

You can simulate a hurricane with a high degree of accuracy, but it doesn't make the wind blow.

Simulating a thing does not manifest the physical properties of the thing. That's not what a simulation is.

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Re:Building a fly brain in a computer by abainbridge on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @09:10AM (#18336093)
It makes the wind blow _in_the_simulation_.

Pain felt in the simulation would still be a phenomenon worth moral consideration, particularly if you haven't got proof that we aren't all living in a simulation ourselves.

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