Your claim seems to require more knowledge about biology than most people actually have. Suppose you have an upload saying “I’m conscious”. You start optimizing the program, step by little step, until you get a tiny program that just outputs the string “I’m conscious” without actually being conscious. How do we tell at what point the program lost consciousness? And if we can’t tell, then why are we sure that the process of scanning and uploading a biological brain doesn’t have similar problems?
Check their stream of consciousness to see if they’re trolling. If they’re not, YOU TURNED INTO A CAT!!
Your claim seems to require more knowledge about biology than most people actually have. Suppose you have an upload saying “I’m conscious”. You start optimizing the program, step by little step, until you get a tiny program that just outputs the string “I’m conscious” without actually being conscious. How do we tell at what point the program lost consciousness? And if we can’t tell, then why are we sure that the process of scanning and uploading a biological brain doesn’t have similar problems?
That’s what makes it a joke.