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Comment author: [deleted] 04 July 2012 01:46:25AM 17 points [-]

Computationalism is an incorrect model of cognition. Brains compute, but mind is not what the brain does. There is no self hiding inside your apesuit. You are the apesuit. Minds are embodied and extended, and a major reason why the research program to build synthetic intelligences has largely gone nowhere since its inception is the failure of many researchers to understand/agree with this idea.

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Comment author: Armok_GoB 04 July 2012 08:02:43PM 2 points [-]

Do you believe a upload with a simulated body would work? how high fidelity?