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Re:Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain... by FlowerPower on Thursday May 19, 2011 @03:08AM (#2563151)
Do you think it is OK for F or a brain mdoel to experience pain? As long as it is not you who is feeling the pain, it is moral acceptable? Is that what you are saying?
Re:Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain... by hasenj on Thursday May 19, 2011 @03:22AM (#2563168)
Well no, of course not! (assuming a brain model does experience pain)

I'm just saying if this theoretical "virtual hell" does really happen, it will be a computer hell, not a human hell.

Although I don't actually think a computer simulating a brain model will have consciousness. However complex that simulation is, it's nothing more than electrons flowing through a circuit, and this flow has no intrinsic meaning; I have no reason to believe consciousness can arise from such a thing.

Re:Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain... by Mahh on Thursday May 19, 2011 @03:21AM (#2563167)
He's only saying that a copy of a brain would create a separate entity, and that separate entities won't share experiences. Like how identical twins have different experiences. There were no claims about morality of using brain models for testing.