On naturalism and consciousness

[dissily mordentroge]

Fare enough but practical to what purpose? To facilitate discussion or describe a supposed reality? I find myself wondering too if the mind is accepted as the software, how easy is it to re-program it and how easy to wipe the 'hard disk' and instal a new OS?

In my view, the brain is the collection of neurons; the mind is the processes that run on those neurons. So a mind can exist on other mediums if we know what processes/algorithms need to run.

Neurons and their relationship to each other can be considered as a single entity without any need to postulate a seperate abstraction 'operating' them.
You can, if you find it helpful as a thought experiment, regard the function neurons perform a separate, stand alone program. I suggest though they're one and the same thing.
I'm afraid on this my 'software' and yours don't run the same algorithm.