On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Emlyn wrote:
> I think people are only suggesting it as a thought experiment (would
> it be conscious?), not as a desirable implementation.
It is a rather sterile gedanken. Of the same type as the Chinese Room, or
running Mozilla on a Turing machine: in theory it works, in practice it
doesn't.
So yes, the result would be conscious, and no, because you can't build
this in this universe. It would be a violation of physical laws.
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