I know that smarter people than me have discussed this to death, but IMO, you simply can't make statistical arguments like that. Let's say you have an input x

I know that smarter people than me have discussed this to death, but IMO, you simply can't make statistical arguments like that. Let's say you have an input x and a step function f such that the sequence x, f(x), f(f(x)), ... contains (in whatever sense) a conscious mind. Once that sequence is defined, it doesn't (and can't) logically matter whether it is evaluated once, twice or a hundred times, whether it is evaluated on a slow computer or fast computer, or, in fact, not evaluated at all. There is always only one sequence, and the act of evaluating adds no information to it.