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I have a materialistic belief. It's a 'belief' in the same sense that a political or religious affiliation is a belief. So I'm not interested in practicality. what I am interested in is the idea that if you COULD build a brain or a bird, boson for boson, fermion for fermion, it would initially be indistinct from that upon which it was modelled. If you instantaneously put an adult brain into a certain unexpected context, though, it would probably have trauma. This gets into blade-runner inquiries about implanted memories, and the psychological result.