In what objectively demonstrable way does what you have just described
not apply word-for-word to a human brain? I may concede that /your/
computer on your desk now might not experience fear or joy, but to
blindly assume that such experiences /cannot/ be experienced by a more
powerful computer in /exactly/ the way I do is to postulate that my
brain is something other than the mechanical process that occurs in it--
in other words, that's tantamount to dualism, and other mystical bunk.
I know that I feel. I experience it directly. It would be outrageously
arrogant of me to assume that my particular bizarre construction of
proteins was somehow more capable of that than a similarly-powered
organism implemented in semiconductors.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC