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shminux comments on Eight questions for computationalists - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: shminux 24 August 2012 11:22:26PM 0 points [-]

I'm pretty sure that you agree that none of this means that a human brain in a vat with proper connections to the environment, real or simulated, is inherently less conscious than one attached to a body.

Comment author: gwern 25 August 2012 12:24:00AM 0 points [-]

I don't take embodiment that far, no, but a simulated amputation in a simulation would seem as problematic as a real amputation in the real-world barring extraordinary intervention on the part of the simulation.