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I still think papers like these tend to undermine the sophistication and difficultly in solving the hard problem of consciousness. We can throw more and more co

I still think papers like these tend to undermine the sophistication and difficultly in solving the hard problem of consciousness. We can throw more and more computing power at creating a GTA-like simulation and make the AI more and more complex and ever more alive; but that won't ever make them conscious. And based on the current understanding, it seems that consciousness is more than just something that springs up from raw computing power. So the whole GTA-ification of reality just doesn't work for me. If we really are in GTA—well, why am I having the experience I am having? Is that question even answerable?

titzer 8y ago
> I still think papers like these tend to undermine the sophistication and difficultly in solving the hard problem of consciousness. We can throw more and more computing power at creating a GTA-like simulation and make the AI more and more complex and ever more alive; but that won't ever make them conscious. You're assuming dualism from the start, and you won't get anything but more dualism out of this line of reasoning. > If we really are in GTA—well, why am I having the experience I am having? When the characters in GTA start asking themselves this out loud, you two can argue it over and one or the other of you will have an epiphany.
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