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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Replying to @Plinz
i'd say it's not a "confusion", it is widely the axiomatic given prerequesite that we live in a material world. sure, with software everything is possible. question may rather be, am i an avatar? or comes my consciousness solely from the main loop?
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Replying to @herzmeisterderw
You don't live in a material world. You are part of a simulated world, created by a primate brain. In other words, you live in the dream of a monkey.
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Replying to @Plinz @herzmeisterderw
Ever had a dream so lucid, that you realized that the dreamer of the dream was dreaming his identity? I have. The most delicious mind fuckery of all time.
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