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30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 March 2008 12:28AM

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Comment author: Unknown 31 March 2008 05:17:36AM -1 points [-]

Mtraven: as I understand him, Eliezer is saying that is is logically impossible to have a physical structure identical to a conscious human being without it being, in fact, a conscious human being. He hasn't yet said that it is logically impossible to have something that acts like a conscious human being, but made out of other physical stuff, without consciousness. If he does go on to say this, he will really be going off the deep end in terms of making baseless assertions. In order to know that such a thing is true, he would first have to solve the question which he has admitted is a question, and which he has not solved, nor has anyone else: WHY is a human being conscious?