<p><pre><code>    &gt; Would the simulated human have real subjective experience? No
    &gt; way to find out as far as I can tell.
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I think that once you hold the view that living beings aren&#x27;t &quot;magic&quot;,
that our behavior &#x2F; wants &#x2F; needs are just a result of the sum of our
hardware as it were, you&#x27;ll quickly realize that talking about &quot;real&quot;
experiences doesn&#x27;t make sense.<p>Extrapolating from a simpler system can help to give clarity,
e.g. does this Lego Robot who&#x27;s running a complete simulation of a
round worm&#x27;s neural network feel &quot;real&quot; hunger when its food sensory
neurons are stimulated?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=2_i1NKPzbjM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=2_i1NKPzbjM</a><p>Some might have the knee-jerk reaction of saying something to the effect of &quot;of course it&#x27;s not real, it&#x27;s just a simulation running on some robot, it&#x27;s not actually hungry&quot;.<p>I think that falls apart when you consider the following: Suppose I had the technology to take an existing round worm and slowly replace its individual cells &amp; copmonents with artificial equivalents, at what point would it stop having &quot;real&quot; feelings of hunger or anything else?<p>I think the only sensible answer is to realize that the question doesn&#x27;t make any sense. No more than asserting that moving a computer program from one computer to another makes its execution any less &quot;real&quot;.<p><pre><code>    &gt; You can&#x27;t even find out whether I have true subjective
    &gt; experience. Maybe I&#x27;m just a machine acting as if I do. So maybe
    &gt; it&#x27;s a nonsensical question, but I have never found a satisfying
    &gt; explanation for why exactly it&#x27;s a nonsensical question.
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I think if we mapped your entire biology &amp; neural network and uploaded
it to the proverbial Lego Robot we could easily find out a lot of
things about what&#x27;s happening with your experience of the
world.<p>E.g. maybe you&#x27;re in chronic pain, maybe you&#x27;re hungry. Those things
are just the result of biological processes in your body &amp;
brain. There&#x27;s no reason to think subjective experience is anything
inherently different.<p>Edit: Added some clarifications.