As a thought experiment, imagine that the mechanical computer in the following comic is used to create a perfect model of your brain... http://xkcd.com/505/ ht

As a thought experiment, imagine that the mechanical computer in the following comic is used to create a perfect model of your brain... http://xkcd.com/505/ http://xkcd.com/505/ At what point does it become conscious ? It doesn't seem to me like it would. As the comic says, electricity is the same thing as rocks just faster processing. Basic consciousness remains an unsolved problem in my eyes.