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Old 22nd April 2012, 08:12 PM   #231
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Originally Posted by angrysoba View Post
"Consciousness is a kind of data processing and the brain is a machine that can be in principle replicated in other substrates, but general purpose computers are just not made of the right stuff."
How do you know general purpose computers are not made of the right stuff? What is the right stuff we'd need to make consciousness?

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