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NotPhil  ·  4244 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This is How Wrong Kurzweil Is

It's true you don't have to mimic the form to mimic the function, but, as the sentence you emphasized implies, neither Kurzweil nor anyone else has proposed any specifications for a device which can mimic sentience. So far, the only specs we have are the biological ones, and we're not only unsure of what those actually are, we don't even understand how whatever they are produce consciousness.