mfb comments on How sure are you that brain emulations would be conscious? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mfb 24 August 2013 07:53:08PM 12 points [-]

I cannot imagine how moving sodium and potassium ions could lead to consciousness if moving electrons cannot.

In addition, I think consciousness is a gradual process. There is no single point in the development of a human where it suddenly gets conscious, and in the same way, there was no conscious child of two non-conscious parents.