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* If I build a device that can copy a human atom by atom. What would that duplicate do? How would it behave?
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If it was an atom-by-atom duplicate of a human, it would function and behave (and think) exactly like the human it was duplicated from... up until an instant afterward, at which point the duplicate's experiences would be different from the original human, and its behavior would be colored by its own unique experiences.
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* If I build a device that can take a snapshot of my brain, and build a very high powered Virtual Reality Simulation, that can simulate the behaviour of every single cell in my brain from the snapshot on. Can this simulation think?
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It could... IF you could accurately recreate the behavior of those neurons. However, since no one understands the brain well enough to do that very thing, any simulation you'd create could only create a rough simulation of the neurochemical process, which would not be enough to accomplish "thinking."
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* Why is it, that a human can never learn to speak chinese if he has never been exposed to chinese?
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Why is it that a rock can not roll if it is not round, Grasshopper?