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Re:Is Consciousness Computable? by dhruval on Thursday May 08, 2014 @10:52PM (#7719076)
As a thought experiment, imagine that the mechanical computer in the following comic is used to create a perfect model of your brain...

http://xkcd.com/505/

At what point does it become conscious ? It doesn't seem to me like it would.

As the comic says, electricity is the same thing as rocks just faster processing.

Basic consciousness remains an unsolved problem in my eyes.

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