EDIT: Whoops, replied to the wrong comment. I meant to reply to the apparent Searle adherent.
You are going overboard in the other direction. Cochlear implants show that machines can talk to brains without an abstraction other than an electric signal. It's a long way from there to living even partly "in" a machine, but that was kind of my point.
You are going overboard in the other direction. Cochlear implants show that machines can talk to brains without an abstraction other than an electric signal. It's a long way from there to living even partly "in" a machine, but that was kind of my point.