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Surely you realize that quibbling over the use of analog vs digital neural summation in my toy example does not address my main argument.
Anything can be simulated perfectly (and trivially) in a probabilistic sense.
If we knew the basis for consciousness, we would have objective tests. It's possible that studying the brain's structural and connectional organization in detail will provide the clues we need to develop better informed opinions about the basis of consciousness.
This is my final post and I would like to thank everyone for the discussion. If anyone is interested in developing autotracing and autosegmentation programs for connectomics and neural circuit reconstruction in whole-brain volume electron microscopy datasets, please email me at brainmaps at gmail dot com or visit http://connectomes.org for more information. Thanks again.