Fine-grained brain simulation would deserve the same moral rights as humans
dioscuri · x · 2026-11-03
In a debate on AI consciousness, dioscuri argues a maximally fine-grained AI simulation of a human brain should hold the same moral rights as a human; species specificity ultimately refers to wider cognitive type. He gives no weight to substrate, noting LLM inference has already been run on human-neuron biocompute via Cortical Labs' cloud.
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