Thread:User talk:Nebuchadnezzar/Theory of mind - on the computer. a bit funny (or not)/reply (16)

If it's a genuine facsimile of a human brain with subjective experience (or qualia if you want to go there, but I really hate that term), then, yeah, I don't see how "turning off" the brain would be any different than just going out and killing someone, at least in an instantaneous way.