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 @umruehren
This is blowing my mind, specially when tied with the glider example. If you arrange a set of dominoes to compute whether or not a number is prime: the falling dominoes are the ground truth, the algorithm, number & primality are simulacra? Where can I read more about this view?
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The algorithm can be a causally stringent emergent pattern. A simulacrum usually lacks causal stringency. An emulated computer is functionally a computer, while the simulacrum of a computer only pretends to be one.
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