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V_V comments on Shawn Mikula on Brain Preservation Protocols and Extensions - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: oge 29 April 2015 02:47AM

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Comment author: V_V 30 April 2015 03:58:36PM *  0 points [-]

"He does not understand universal computability" seems an overstatement, universal computability doesn't logically imply functionalism, although I agree that it tends to imply that definitions of consciousness which are not invariant under simulation have little epistemic usefulness.