From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Thu Mar 13 2003 - 14:45:09 MST
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 11:30, Andrew Clough wrote:
> It looks like the recent development of a possible artificial hippocampus
> is touching off a debate in the MIT Atheists, Agnostics, and Humanists
> about whether someone with silicon instead of neurons could be considered
> human. I'm already pretty familiar with the arguments, but don't have any
> good web site links handy. If people have links that really explain the
> issues, particularly one to that argument about replacing the brain neuron
> by neuron whose name I forget, I would be much obliged.
>
### This is the "dancing qualia" argument by Chalmers, at
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/papers/qualia.html
Rafal
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