DSimon comments on Beyond the Reach of God - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DSimon 26 December 2011 05:31:47PM 2 points [-]

The basic idea is that a perfect simulation of a physical human mind would be sentient due to the anti-zombie principle. Since all you need for such a simulation is a Turing machine, it follows that any Turing machine could exhibit sentience given the right program.