Next month, IBM is set to activate the most ambitious simulation of a human brain yet conceived. It's a model they say is accurate down to the molecule. No one claims the "Blue Brain" project will be self-aware. But ...
There are potentially ethical issues here, like what the status of 'it' would be if consciousness were to arise. But it may take quite a while, presumably the simulation would have to take time to develop and a bodily experience would need to be simulated, and it is arguable that human consciousness is, in any case a shared thing and that a single brain without social [largely mimetic] context is unlikely to amount to much.... but maybe they've thought of all that.
The Connection.org : The Ethics of Creating Consciousness: Filed in: brain, consciousness, model, simulation, thinking, IBM, mind
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