I think the confusion about the Hard Problem of Consciousness results from people's intuition that they live in the physical world, not in a software simulation. It is not hard to see how software can represent the illusion of being a person, and how software can move your body.
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There is no monkey in the physical world. The monkey is a model that your mind discovered to compress sensory data. It is a pretty good model, I think.
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Saying physical systems don’t have p consciousness but implement simulations that do have p consciousness seems like slight if hand.
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Do we have any toy examples of a simulation having properties that it’s implementing substrate do not/can not have?
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It depends on the substrate. If you implement in physics, you have conservation laws that don’t apply to the simulation. Physics also has no symbolic interactions (like a command line backdoor: magical invocations that can directly change macrostates).
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