Say we discover (somehow) that it's actually impossible to simulate a human-level conscious mind on inorganic substrate. What did we discover?
(e.g. we're running in a simulation, and a resolution limit prematurely halts Moore's Law; etc)
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The concept of discovering the impossibility of something is an interesting one - from the starting point of “something cannot yet be done,” I am not sure what criteria must be met to reach the conclusion “it simply is not possible under any circumstance.”
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Perhaps the same way we know that it's not possible to simultaneously specify both the position and momentum of a particle.