Suppose that at the end of the day, when mind-modelling attains its Utopia, there are nine successful candidates. All nine are
T3-indistinguishable from us, but three of them fail T4 (cut them open and they are clearly distinguishable in their internal
microfunctions from us and our own real neural functions). Of the remaining six, three pass T4, but fail T5: their internal neural
activities are functionally indistinguishable -- transplants can be swapped between us and them, at any biocomponential scale -- buttheirs are still crafted out of synthetic materials; they are T4-indistinguishable, but T5-distinguishable; only the last three are engineered out of real biological molecules, physically identical to our own, hence T5-indistinguishable from ourselves in every physical respect. The only remaining difference among these last three is that they were designed in collaboration with three different physicists, and each of the physicists happens to subscribe to a different GUTE -- of which there also happen to be three left at the end of the day.
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