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> Yet, if I simulated every molecule of my body This gets into the concept of free will. If you have free will, then it is your own conscious decisions that a
by EMM_386 6y ago
> Yet, if I simulated every molecule of my body
This gets into the concept of free will.
If you have free will, then it is your own conscious decisions that are affecting the universe, and not the universe affecting your conscious decisions.
In this scenario, you can't "simulate every molecule" of your body, because that simulation will have to include whether or not you decided to touch that hot stove. And that decision rested solely with you, in your mind.
If we do not have free will, and this whole thing is "on rails", then we are essentially watching an elaborate movie play out that we have no control over.
- Afton 6y agoI don't see how this is related. I subscribe simultaneously to 'qualia is a real problem' and 'free will is an incoherent term'. I think whether you think a perfect simulation of a person has subjective experiences depends on what you think the substrate of that subjectivity is. If you think of it as a computational property then you'll be inclined to say "no, that simulation is experiencing things". If you think it is some kind of fundamental property of the universe, like pan-psychism, then you'll think the simulation is 'missing' subjectivity. Nothing in there about free will in my thinking.