Anders Sandberg has a new article out, “Ethics of brain emulations”. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0952813X.2014.895113 He discusses the uncertainties inherent in whether emulations are ‘sentient’ (i.e., whether WBEs are conscious and can feel pain) and moral considerations and strategies thereof. I’m generally rather skeptical of ethics papers, but the signal-to-noise ratio here is very good. The most striking … Continue reading If a brain emulation has a headache, does it hurt?