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My principled stance is that all known physical processes depend on particular physical processes and consciousness should be no different. What is yours?
So is mine. So what stops a physical process from being simulated in an exact form? What stops the consciousness process from being run on simulated medium rather than physical? Wouldn't that make the abstract perfect artificial mind at least as conscious as a human?
So your stance is that it is impossible to create a simulated intelligence which is not conscious? That seems like the less likely possibility to me.
I do think it’s clearly possible to manufacture a conscious mind.