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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Replying to @Plinz
what is your criterion to tell apart a simulated system from a... also, what's the opposite of a simulated system?
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Replying to @umruehren
The ground truth has an actually implemented transition function. A simulacrum can only be described as if it did. I think that is what the difference comes down to. Most models are simulacra.
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Replying to @Plinz
Is this about levels of description? Every system ultimately runs on the ground truth transition function, so nothing is a simulation, but if we don't impose functional subsystem-boundaries we're lost -- and yours is: consciousness is computational, substrate is a distraction?
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Replying to @umruehren
Many patterns are not part of the ground truth but only emerge from the perspective of an observer, 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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