My position:

Who we are is nothing more than a few billion neurons in a calcium enclosure 
and an annoyingly inefficient vehicle.

So our intelligence, perceptions, actions, memories, and so on and so forth do 
indeed exist. I don’t see any reason why we can’t recreate that in silicon.

Why we haven’t so far is another issue. To know human intelligence is to know 
ourselves, and we have so far BARELY been able to decipher the brain of a 
honeybee. What’s stopping us is from fully understanding the human brain and 
the relationship between neurological structures and intelligent action.

I believe it’s possible, however. If it exists, it can be simulated.

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On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 8:05 PM, Jim Bromer via AGI <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> I already regret asking these questions, but do you truly (really -
> honestly) believe that:
> Conscious Experience or soul or Qualia or the experience of being (or
> whatever you want to call it) does not actually exist (or occur)?
> and/or
> This experience (whatever you want to call it) can therefore occur in
> a computer program?
> Jim Bromer
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