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DangitBobby 71 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: I'm scared about biological computing

If we learned how the brain works would we suddenly cease to be conscious?

codingdave 68 days ago [–]

If what we learn shows that we can model the most basic components of it on a breadboard, yes.

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