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> 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
by 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.