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 06:22:34PM 2 points [-]

It's still not clear. Can you give me an example of an experiment? It's likely we can figure out the result without actually running the experiment. It's sort of like how I can figure out how an em of you would respond to a philosophical question by showing that they'll answer the same as you, and then asking you.

Comment author: Kawoomba 26 August 2013 06:28:48PM 2 points [-]

How much (and which parts) can you take away and still have what one would call "consciousness"? Actual experiments would force an experimentally usable definition just as much as they'd provide data, potentially yielding advances on two fronts.

We have one box which somehow produces what some call consciousness. Most looks inside the box rely on famous freak accidents ("H.M", etc.), yielding ridiculous breakthroughs. Time to create some "freak accidents" of our own.

Time to pry open dat box.