I have been using Permutation City in class. I also love his Ndoli universe stories: http://eidolon.net/?story=Closer
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Replying to @Plinz
Is there in fact some research that shines light on how processing speed affects (manifestation of) consciousness? https://xkcd.com/505/ (will check the stories).
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Replying to @dluzar
It should not make any difference per se, but you can only track what you can sample, and you can only integrate what you can fit into a signal loop. So if you are stuck with a given substrate, you don't want to be too slow or too fast.
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Replying to @Plinz
Would you consider a simulation to be integrated with the outside world, from the perspective of the simulated? Can consciousness be sustained if the state change takes orders of magnitude more time than e.g. the frequency our brains operate on?
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What happens if you freeze a simulation and resume it an hour later? As you said, there shouldn't be any difference from the "inside" point of view. But it certainly feels weird that moving rocks on a plane would create consciousness.
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But I think the flaw in that hypothesis is that it doesn't consider the movement of the rocks during placement as a state change in itself.
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Replying to @dluzar
The simulation running in our brain does not have somehow a window to the outside world. What we perceive as the outside world is the simulation. The relationship between mind and substrate is the same as between hardware and software.
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Hmm. Unless you think how each gets its electrons makes a difference, with some novel sampled & conserved husbandry in one that defies computation because it adds no thermodynamic burden
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Replying to @pennybun01 @dluzar
Software is a description of the world as a causally closed system of macrostates. But the only thing that is truly causally closed are the bottom level microstates of the universe. The evil force that inevitably encroaches on our neat macrostate description is entropy.
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What closes the system?
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The model constraint
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Right. And life games nature’s, in my view. It is ridiculously hard to sustain.
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Replying to @pennybun01 @dluzar
Life is just a layer of complexity of nature. It’s ridiculously hard to extinguish.
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