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> If you think the answer might be no, then congratulations, you actually believe in immaterial souls If you scan a body of water, and simulate it perfectly, t
by BobbyJo 2y ago
> If you think the answer might be no, then congratulations, you actually believe in immaterial souls
If you scan a body of water, and simulate it perfectly, the resulting simulation will not be wet. You can't separate a material process from the material completely. Consciousness may be a result of carbon being a substrate in the interactions. It might be because the brain is wet when those processes happen. There is plenty of room between believing a perfect computational simulation is not conscious and believing in immaterial souls.
- codeflo 2y ago> If you scan a body of water, and simulate it perfectly, the resulting simulation will not be wet. It will be wet to the simulated being that's swimming in it. > Consciousness may be a result of carbon being a substrate in the interactions. Are you conscious? If so, how did you find out that you're made from actual carbon atoms and not simulated ones?
- BobbyJo 2y ago> It will be wet to the simulated being that's swimming in it. Which has an entirely different qualia to us, the beings who consciousness we are trying to unravel. > Are you conscious? That's the big question. > If so, how did you find out that you're made from actual carbon atoms and not simulated ones? If I assume I'm conscious, whatever my atoms are, they are the atoms of concern with regard to said consciousness.