I don't see why it would matter. If you obtain consciousness, that consciousness will have free will, so will take over the whatever subcomponents that you might use, so those subcomponents will stop obeying the "physical laws" that we know from simple systems.
On Wednesday, 24 April 2019 13:43:58 UTC+3, stathisp wrote: > > > But the point is, you could replace a spinning drive with a solid state > drive, a tape recorder with a digital recorder, a knee joint with an > artificial joint. These replacements are made of completely different > materials, yet are functionally similar. Is there anything to stop us > replacing neurons or subcomponents of neurons with physically different but > functionally similar parts? > >> -- > Stathis Papaioannou > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
