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.
I understand where your intuition comes from. But intuition is only reliable if it is built on deeply understanding a domain. Especially in philosophy, where we can have little experiential grounding.
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?? This isn't intuition, this is just an offering of explanation of what sort of simulation probably can't create something as complex as what we normally consider consciousness. A linear function is just a simple if/then process. Most don't consider that "conscious".
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How can I make you see that your foundations don't hold, and that you cannot make far reaching inferences while standing on broken foundations? For instance, your toolbox cannot prove what an if/then process can and cannot do, and it does not even tell you that it cannot.
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