I think we should stop talking about “virtual” minds. A mind is a mind, whatever its substrate.
In the same way, it’s also probable that a brain is a brain, artificial or no, you probably can’t efficiently generate human experience with general purpose compute hardware, you’d want something specialized, possibly even bespoke to the individual it’s allocated to.
There are virtual worlds (you don’t need anything remotely mountain-like to simulate a mountain), but there are not virtual people.
I think we should stop talking about “virtual” minds. A mind is a mind, whatever its substrate.
In the same way, it’s also probable that a brain is a brain, artificial or no, you probably can’t efficiently generate human experience with general purpose compute hardware, you’d want something specialized, possibly even bespoke to the individual it’s allocated to.
There are virtual worlds (you don’t need anything remotely mountain-like to simulate a mountain), but there are not virtual people.