Oof that is a terrible argument. And sorry for the swearing (depending on what cypher book you used to read that last sentence). And ooh I revealed my HN pass

Oof that is a terrible argument. And sorry for the swearing (depending on what cypher book you used to read that last sentence). And ooh I revealed my HN password there for Alice or maybe Bob. Anyway it is a bad argument because what we are saying is a hot iron is conscious because of a theoretical XOR mapping. That XOR mapping would need to be huge. And maybe that mapping is conscious. How can we know it isn’t. Although it is a snapshot of time. We rely on memory so we can’t even be sure there is a future or past. That we are not simulated etc. There is probably an integer that represents my state. A damn large one. You can’t boil this problem down to a proof by contradiction. To be convinced he has to show me why we are different from digital information.