The vast majority of such brains would not be. They’d just be hunks of dead meat, no different from the brain of a cadaver. A tiny subset, however, would be conscious, at least until they ran out of oxygen or whatever and died.
I’m not objecting to the matter in which the GLUT is created, but merely observing that it doesn’t have a form which seems like it would give rise to consciousness. Without knowing the exact mechanism by which human brains give rise to consciousness, it is difficult to say precisely where to draw the line between calling something conscious or not conscious, but a GLUT doesn’t seem to be structured in a way that could think. I’m arguing that it is possible, at least in principle, to cheat a Turing test with a GLUT.
I gave a few more comments in response to blossom’s question if you are interested.
The vast majority of such brains would not be. They’d just be hunks of dead meat, no different from the brain of a cadaver. A tiny subset, however, would be conscious, at least until they ran out of oxygen or whatever and died.
I’m not objecting to the matter in which the GLUT is created, but merely observing that it doesn’t have a form which seems like it would give rise to consciousness. Without knowing the exact mechanism by which human brains give rise to consciousness, it is difficult to say precisely where to draw the line between calling something conscious or not conscious, but a GLUT doesn’t seem to be structured in a way that could think. I’m arguing that it is possible, at least in principle, to cheat a Turing test with a GLUT.
I gave a few more comments in response to blossom’s question if you are interested.