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A simulation is not the real thing. We can simulate forces and interactions between simulated particles, but neither would have the actual properties of the rea
by Maursault 4y ago
A simulation is not the real thing. We can simulate forces and interactions between simulated particles, but neither would have the actual properties of the real thing, only simulated properties. Simulated magnetism is not magnetic. It is just an appearance, an illusion. Consciousness only arises from actual, genuine healthy brain, not simulated brain. A simulated brain can no more be conscious than a video game.
- unsupp0rted 4y agoA simulation of accounting data is accounting data. A simulation of two entities swapping data and creating a new mixed third entity is reproduction. It’s feasible that a simulation of a brain would be a brain.
- ben_w 4y agoThat argument requires that consciousness is a substance rather than a process. If consciousness is a substance, and not an emergent feature of data that just happens to be processed in us via the medium of electrochemical pathways pumping protons across cell walls, then it is natural to ask if this substance remains after death[0], or precedes birth, or passes between creatures (not necessarily all human) in a cycle of reincarnation[1], or even between living and non-living things like rocks and rivers[2]. Nobody has found significant evidence of such a substance, though they have been looking. [0] Most religions [1] Buddhism, Hinduism, Wicca [2] Some forms of animism