what would happen if each member of the Chinese nation were asked to simulate the action of one neuron in the brain, using telephones or walkie-talkies to simulate the axons and dendrites that connect neurons. Would this arrangement have a mind or consciousness in the same way that brains do?>

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_brain

• what would it mean if China Brain was conscious?
  • we can simulate consciousness
• what would it mean if China Brain wasn't conscious?
  • there's something more to being conscious than neurons
• what is the scale - number of people in China vs number of neurons?
  • neurons in brain - average brain is ~86 billion neurons
  • china - ~1.5 billion people
  • does that matter? isn't it said that the mind comes from connectivity and not number of neurons anyway?