Frankly, on Fridays I'm not even sure I have consciousness

[andrewducker]

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[andrewducker]

Agreed. If you wanted to replicate a person on silicon, I'm fairly sure you'd have to replicate the hardware as well as the software.

[dpolicar]

(nods) And it might turn out to just be easier to replicate the hardware in its original configuration -- that is, replicate the person on carbon. Which would also have some built-in social-acceptance features.