Say we discover (somehow) that it's actually impossible to simulate a human-level conscious mind on inorganic substrate. What did we discover?
(e.g. we're running in a simulation, and a resolution limit prematurely halts Moore's Law; etc)
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I think this question is not meaningful because the use of "inorganic" is vague and does not appear to be literally equivalent to its meaning in chemistry.
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I actually did naively mean inorganic as in chemistry!
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I think my chemistry knowledge is not adequate to talk about this then. The way it was described to me, silicon behaves enough like carbon that you could swap out Si for C in most molecules containing C and get broadly similar behavior.
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By which I mean, you'd think you could just build a whole neuron out of pseudo-organic molecules. It wouldn't surprise me if it turns out you can't take, like, myelin proteins and swap out Cs for Sis and it's EXACTLY the same, but surely you could build workalikes.
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