So if you accidentally cut the top of your head open while shaving and discovered that someone had went and replaced your brain with a high-end classical computing CPU sometime while you were sleeping, you couldn’t accept actually being an upload, since the causal structure that produces the thoughts that you are having qualia are still there? (I suppose you might object to the assumed-to-be-zombie upload you being referred to as ‘you’ as well.)
Reason I’m asking is that I’m a bit confused exactly where the problems from just the philosophical part would come in with the outsourcing to uploaded researchers scenario. Some kind of more concrete prediction, like that a neuromorphic AI architecturally isomorphic to a real human central nervous system just plain won’t ever run as intended until you build an quantum octonion monad CPU to house the qualia bit, would be a lot more not-confusing stance, but I don’t think I’ve seen you take that.
So if you accidentally cut the top of your head open while shaving and discovered that someone had went and replaced your brain with a high-end classical computing CPU sometime while you were sleeping, you couldn’t accept actually being an upload, since the causal structure that produces the thoughts that you are having qualia are still there? (I suppose you might object to the assumed-to-be-zombie upload you being referred to as ‘you’ as well.)
Reason I’m asking is that I’m a bit confused exactly where the problems from just the philosophical part would come in with the outsourcing to uploaded researchers scenario. Some kind of more concrete prediction, like that a neuromorphic AI architecturally isomorphic to a real human central nervous system just plain won’t ever run as intended until you build an quantum octonion monad CPU to house the qualia bit, would be a lot more not-confusing stance, but I don’t think I’ve seen you take that.