What Is It Like to Be a Brain Simulation?
Eray Özkural
arXiv Preprint Archive February 1, 2014 preprint
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
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| Keywords | Cs.ai |
| Key points | Argues that whether a brain simulation would have subjective experience depends on the metaphysical framework adopted, with physicalist and panexperientialist perspectives yielding different answers. |
Abstract
We frame the question of what kind of subjective experience a brain simulation would have in contrast to a biological brain. We discuss the brain prosthesis thought experiment. We evaluate how the experience of the brain simulation might differ from the biological, according to a number of hypotheses about experience and the properties of simulation. Then, we identify finer questions relating to the original inquiry, and answer them from both a general physicalist, and panexperientialist perspective.