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If we could perfectly simulate a brain inside a virtual world, would that simulation be conscious?

Yes
65.1%
No
34.9%

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better yet, if you could simulate YOUR brain completely in a virtual world, would it be you in there?

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One of my favorite books is Permutation City, and the uploading of the brains is the premise.

5:49 PM · Aug 12, 2016

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Also, WRT your earlier teleportation thing, have you seen this short movie? It blew my mind

In The Un-Gone an age of seemingly instantaneous global travel enables one couple to make a new start. But a malfunction reveals a dark truth that exposes both the…

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