I've not read the book, but I'm trying to digest this. For someone who has a good grasp of Dust Theory, if you answer from its perspective... 1) Does believing

I've not read the book, but I'm trying to digest this. For someone who has a good grasp of Dust Theory, if you answer from its perspective... 1) Does believing that consciousness is simulateable commit you to thinking of consciousness as a purely mathematical object, apart from any physical process it might model? 2) If the universe were just an infinite space filled with dust in a wild zoo of different configurations, does my consciousness exist in it so long you can find a dust configuration that admits a mathematical representation that's isomorphic to the one representing my "real" consciousness? 3) How does complexity fit into this? If the entirety of the universe were a single static point particle, would consciousness still fall out of it? It seems as if it could, if you had a sufficiently complicated encoding scheme.