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Comment author: nshepperd 25 August 2013 11:43:16PM 2 points [-]

Yet unless one denies consciousness altogether, we do ascribe consciousness to (a large number of) neurons (each with their basic functionality), why not to a large number of capacitators (on which a database is stored)?

The problem is this argument applies equally well to "why not consider rocks (which, like brains, are made of a large number of atoms) conscious". Simply noting that they're made of simple parts leaves high level structure unexamined.