[thfuran]

I'm no more suggesting that you actually attempt to build an ANN to run a full quantum simulation of a person and their house than Einstein was suggesting that you go out and board a train that goes the speed of light. The reason it's called a thought experiment instead of a project proposal is that actually doing the thing isn't the point. It's about examining the consequences of a premise.

[daveguy]

The difference between your thoughts experiment and Einstein's is that Einstein's had some testable implications. Yours is closer to belief in a teacup drifting in deep space.

[thfuran]

And what's the unfalsifiable assertion you claim I've made?

[daveguy]

The entire premise is unfalsifiable because it requires construction of an impossible thing:

> If you made one big enough to very closely approximate the entire quantum state of a person interacting with an environment, would you still declare that nothing it could do is "thinking"?