On Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 6:15:16 PM UTC-4, John Clark wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 2:50 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
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> ​>> ​
>>> ​Why is a brain in a box made of bone fundamentally different from a 
>>> brain in a box made of glass?
>>>
>>
>> ​>* ​*
>> *The difference is obvious; a brain encased in bone isn't isolated.*
>>
>
> ​And a brain in a glass box​
>  
> ​would't be isolated either, it would be connected to the internet and ​a 
> virtual body or a robot body or anything else it wanted to be connected to. 
> And the connections would be far more information intensive than the meager 
> connections brains now have. 
>
> John K Clark
>

"It" wanted? But without a body "it" wouldn't exist.  Before this model 
passes the smell test, you need a model that explains how "it" comes into 
being, and where; that is, how it is localized. AG

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