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Gualtiero Piccinini on computation and the mind

Thing in itself

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Building a Realistic Model of an Individual Brain

I don't think that's a feasible process either because First of all, it's too invasive. There are so many idealizations and simplifications that go into building models like that You need so much computational power and you need to intervene on the system. Even if you could do that there's no reason to believe that the model would like acquire Consciousness just because you're building this artificial model of a brain. That doesn't give it consciousness the way a brain actually has it. We don't pull it As I was saying earlier, we don't really understand the physical basis of consciousness And and I haven't heard any good reason to believes that all it is Performing a certain type of

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