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The pancreas is described by physics. Can a Turing machine make insulin?

• chr1 6y ago
  Turing machine can make insulin that works on cells created by the Turing machine.
  • goatlover 6y ago
    It's only "insulin" and "cells" for someone interpreting the program. The issue here is that if you had a simulated brain, what makes that simulation a brain for the computer such that it would be conscious? Here's Jaron Lanier on the issue of consciousness and computation: http://www.jaronlanier.com/zombie.html http://www.jaronlanier.com/zombie.html He's meteor shower intuition pump is similar to the argument that nations should be conscious if functionalism is true. The reason being that any complex physical system could potentially instantiate the functionality that produces a conscious state. It's also similar to Greg Egan's "Dust theory of Consciousness" in Permutation City. If one is willing to bite the functional bullet on that, then you can have your simulated consciousness, and the universe may be populated with all sorts of weird conscious experiences outside of animals.