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We frame the question of what kind of subjective experience a brain simulation would have in contrast to a biological brain. We discuss the brain prosthesis thought experiment. We evaluate how the experience of the brain simulation might differ from the biological, according to a number of hypotheses about experience and the properties of simulation. Then, we identify finer questions relating to the original inquiry, and answer them from both a general physicalist, and panexperientialist perspective.
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Özkural, E. (2012). What Is It Like to Be a Brain Simulation?. In: Bach, J., Goertzel, B., Iklé, M. (eds) Artificial General Intelligence. AGI 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7716. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35506-6_24
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