Today's unpopular argument:
1. There are conscious beings in our world.
2. Consciousness cannot be simulated.
3. So, our world is not a simulation.
4. So, the Simulation Hypothesis is false.
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Why can't consciousness be simulated? Dreams are simulations in which we think we're conscious, but we're kinda not really conscious.
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Speaking for myself: I understand consciousness to be one and the same as first-person experience (the subjective point-of-view).
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