Why I Am Puzzled by Philosophers...

Richard Chappell:

Philosophy, et cetera: Non-Physical Questions: Would you still be conscious if your neurons were replaced by (functionally identical) silicon chips? It seems like this is an open question. But how do physicalists accommodate this datum? We know (by stipulation) all the physical facts of the story: we know that the resulting "brain" is functionally/computationally no different, but that the matter it's made of is different. If the physical facts exhaust the facts...