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

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Comment author: DanielLC 26 August 2013 06:16:27PM 1 point [-]

I have no a priori reason why the same software would be more likely to be conscious running on one set of hardware than another. Any a posterori reason I could think of that I am conscious would be thought of by an em running on different hardward, and would be just as valid. As such, I can be no more sure that I am conscious on my current hardware than on any other hardware.