> 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

> 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.