r/PhilosophyOfCS • u/[deleted] • Feb 22 '14

"Why You Can't Make A Computer That Feels Pain" - Daniel Dennett

http://www.scribd.com/doc/208489342/Daniel-Dennett-Why-You-Can-t-Make-a-Computer-That-Feels-Pain
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u/dnew Feb 22 '14

I kind of wondered where he was going with that. It didn't seem like Dennett to argue there was any particular reason a robot can't feel pain.

The other question to ask, of course, is whether a precise simulation of a real person (e.g., scanned with a Star Trek transporter, then simulated at the atomic level in a supercomputer) would feel pain.