Some people, like Christof Koch, think that a simulation cannot become conscious. The irony is that only simulations can be conscious. Consciousness is a simulated property of a simulated system.
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I do feel like a glider in a cellular automaton
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What does it feel like to be a glider? I think that gliders can be described by transition functions, even if they emerge over different ones. But a personal self does not have a mathematically consistent transition function, it just moves through a sequence of events.
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