[maurile]

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"Dualism is stupid"

Is there any reason why that is not equivalent to saying that computers can, at least in principle, be made conscious?

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Computers, at least in principle, can be made conscious. The human brain is a computer.

If you mean a silicon-based computer that just does data-storage and information-processing, I don't know. There may be more to consciousness than that. There seems to be more to a human brain than that, anyway. Brains don't just process information with logic circuits. They have neurotransmitters and hormones and stuff, and these seem to play a big role in affecting the experience of consciousness. So maybe an "artificial" computer would need similar stuff, not just computational information-processing.