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Comment author: RolfAndreassen 25 August 2012 04:25:44AM 1 point [-]

Is the fact that the simulated subject is a human important for the proposed thought experiment, besides that it activates all sorts of wrong intuitions about free will and makes the lookup table unimaginably huge or even infinite?

I don't think so, any Turing machine will do.

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