What Is It Like to Be a Brain Simulation?
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1402.5379,
title = {What Is It Like to Be a Brain Simulation?},
author = {Eray Özkural},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.5379},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
10 pages, draft of conference paper published in AGI 2012, also accepted to AISB 2012 but it was too late to arrange travel, unfortunately; Artificial General Intelligence, 5th International Conference, AGI 2012, Oxford, UK, December 8-11, 2012. Proceedings