Neural nets are just math. If math is consciousness, the epiphenomenalism is true, which IMO is absurd. Alternatively literal magic is real - there's a formula that, independent of its underlying properties, summons consciousness.
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You're denying the obvious at this point. If you stop believing the Earth is flat, then the belief the Earth is flat no longer exists. And vice versa. If you stop imaging a cube and start imagining orange, then the cube ceases to exist.
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sure, and the fact that i'm experiencing things depends on neither my believing i am doing so nor me imagining myself to do so
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