Furcas comments on Consciousness of simulations & uploads: a reductio - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Furcas 21 August 2010 08:42:48PM 2 points [-]

When we simulate a brain on a general purpose computer, however, there is no physically similar pattern of energy/matter flow.

There isn't?

(Not a rhetorical question)

Comment author: rabidchicken 21 August 2010 08:49:53PM * 2 points [-]

There is. you can look at the blueprints of a CPU or GPU, and it is quite clear that everything needs to be connected in a certain way to work.