Is Virtual Reality… Real? with David Chalmers
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Will Simulated Minds Be Real?
Author argues that if we simulate a whole brain and get to creatures with the behavior or capacities that you and i have, they would be conscious. But how would we know that that threshold has been crossed? Do you have any sense of that? Like, uc, certainly right now, when i'm playing the sims, i don't mind. I don't give a shit if i lock up my sim in a little room and it, you know, peas itself and dies - but is there, how, at what point would i start to feel otherwise?
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