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.
See? I was afraid you'd say something like that. :) David Chalmers has quite a few significant insights, but his core project (explaining phenomenal experience) was a failure. Yet he sees that he must explain why people report about consciousness rather than consciousness itself.
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I agree it was a failure! I didn’t say he found the right answers, just that he at least asked the right questions.
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Reality cannot have been impossibly difficult to get to work. It must have been pretty much inevitable. If we cannot find the answer, we are usually not asking the right question.
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