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

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Comment author: Baughn 28 August 2013 11:37:35PM 1 point [-]

For part of that 2%, you may consider the possibility that brains do not produce consciousness/qualia, and your actual consciousness is implemented on a different sort of hardware, outside the matrix.

(Does telling you this fairly specific story in any way budge the 2% number?)

Comment author: CAE_Jones 29 August 2013 12:08:11AM 0 points [-]

I'd say it fits pretty well inside the 2% (I was kinda worried 2% was a bit large, but had to take into consideration that I'm not actually a neuroscientist, among other things, including the simulation hypothesis).