Can silicon-based brains feel pain?

"Why fish (likely) don’t feel pain" presents the architecture of the circuitry needed for brains that can experience pain: Human brains have it; fish brains don't. There remains a question about artificial brains (ABs). Could an AB that is made of just silicon-based material that matched the architecture as described experience pain, or would it have to sufficiently involve biochemical material like what's in our human brains? In other words, the chemical components (present in a biochemical-based AB, but missing in the silicon-based AB) play a critical role in the pain experience.

Platonists, Positivists, Pragmatists, and Programmists

Richard Rorty described three kinds of Philosophers: Platonists, Positivists, and Pragmatists. [1]

Programmists — Programmism says that everything there is is made of (programming language) code — are likely to be Pragmatists.

[1] in Introduction to Consequences of Pragmatism

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Codosopher defined

A philosopher is a lover of knowledge.
A codosopher is a coder of knowledge.*


What are the types of code in the technological, natural, and cultural worlds?

philo-
from Greek, before vowels phil-, word-forming element meaning "loving, fond of, tending to"

code (in the computer sense from 1947)
the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions

sophia
from Greek, "skill, knowledge of, acquaintance with; sound judgement, practical wisdom; cunning, shrewdness; philosophy"

* Or a coder|philosopher portmanteau.

Codosophy, irony, and singularity

Codosophy (code of sophia, or the merging of coding and philosophy). Science is reverse code engineering of some aspect of reality into some domain-specific (programming) language (DSL).


Irony. According to Richard Rory (Contingency, irony, and solidarity), ironists are never certain of their final vocabularies programming languages.


Singularity. Source code written in scientific DSLs compile to two different kinds of target code: computer simulations or active biomolecular/chemical/atomic assemblies. The latter — assemblies, not simulations — will threaten live among us.

computer simulation vs. programmable assembly

A compiler translates code of one language into code of another language — source code into target code. [1]

Source code written in a biological/chemical/physical domain-specific language could compile to different kinds of target code: computer simulation or molecular/chemical/atomic assembly. [2]