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Benito comments on How sure are you that brain emulations would be conscious? - Less Wrong
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Your whole epistemology and the conscious state of ems are near equivalent for you? That feels strange, although I of course don't know how much research into consciousness and neuroscience you've done. Inside my head, sure, I've read some good LW philosophy, but I can't hold much more than an 85% likelihood on something empirical over which I hold no special knowledge.
Not equivalent, no. It is just that the conscious state of whole brain emulations being overturned would require rejecting either reductionism entirely or at least physics as currently understood. In that case I struggle to work out what decisions to make differently to hedge against being wrong because the speculative alternate reality is to alien to adequately account for.
What law of physics says consciousness is entirely in the brain? That seems more like an empirical fact about how certain kinds of animals are wired, rather than a fundamental principle of nature.
I wouldn't claim that it must be. In principle any other form of computation would suffice. I don't understand why this observation is made in this context.
Err... yes. That's why we consider whole brain emulation instead of whole foot emulation or whole slimy green tentacle emulation but this is not an important detail. The point is that they are wired in physics, not outside of it.