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The_Jaded_One comments on Your transhuman copy is of questionable value to your meat self. - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: The_Jaded_One 19 January 2016 11:04:36PM 1 point [-]

To deny consciousness an anatomical location in the brain is to say it arises from something other than brain function. Are you supporting some sort of supernatural theory of consciousness?

No, I am saying that consciousness - like a website or computer program - is a computational phenomenon which isn't irrevocably tied to once piece of hardware. It may currently be instantiated in the particular neurons in your brain, but that could change if the computational functions of those neurons were taken over by other physical devices. Your consciousness could, in principal, be run as a distributed computing project like folding@home.