the Chinese nation thought experiment, this time about the simulation of brains. What would happen if every Chinese citizen coordinated to simulate the computations of a brain in order to replicate the actions of all its neurons, perhaps using telephones or walkie-talkies? Would such coordination result in a conscious mind that feels like a human, or like a lion for the matter? After all, we have been arguing that the mind is computational and that what matters is the flow of information independent of the physical substrate in which it is implemented. Where would that consciousness be? In all
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