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by SeamusBrady 5904 days ago
Trapped by a metaphor... a mind is like a computer, but a mind is not a computer. If you build a fast computer model of a mind, then you have - wait for it! - a fast computer model of a mind!

Sentience is more than just a matter of modelling, surely?

Note, I did not say that a sentient, non-human thinking being is an impossibility, but I am not sure that it would happen by building big fast models.

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> Sentience is more than just a matter of modelling, surely?

Why? What if it is the pattern that matters for sentience, not the form of the implementation, and a model captured that pattern?