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No, it's not. I feel that I exist. I can represent time/space in a computer program. Nothing would feel that it exists there. Overall, I feel I'm trying to pus
by thriftwy 3y ago
No, it's not. I feel that I exist. I can represent time/space in a computer program. Nothing would feel that it exists there.
Overall, I feel I'm trying to push against another philosophical maxim that I know: "If somebody tells you that consciousness does not exist, it's all just measurement and neuron signals - believe them"
- antonvs 3y agoWhat is that maxim supposed to mean? My first interpretation is that it's saying that people who say that might be philosophical zombies, lacking consciousness.
- maxlamb 3y ago| I can represent time/space in a computer program. Nothing would feel that it exists there. That's why I said real-time and continuous. All digital systems, at the lowest level of computations are discrete, not continuous (i.e. analog). And the changes happening in real-time, i.e. the transistors values changing in processing units are very far removed from a representation of reality. What I mean by that is that if you are watching a video of a desert on a computer screen and took a snapshot of the transistor values in a GPU/CPU happening at the same time, they is no good mapping from one to the other (Since that one screenshot may be computed by thousands of computation cycles in the GPU/CPU).