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Some people, like Christof Koch, think that a simulation cannot become conscious. The irony is that only simulations can be conscious. Consciousness is a simulated property of a simulated system.
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I’m one of them and I think that’s an incoherent position. Simulation is one system representing a model of another and it has zero salience to the hard problem of consciousness.
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Yeah Penrose had an okay tack on this initially though he kinda derailed in Shadows of Mind. IMO the only person who has come close to framing the question correctly in western philosophy is David Chalmers. AI is a red herring. Even computation isn’t quite relevant.
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See? I was afraid you'd say something like that. :) David Chalmers has quite a few significant insights, but his core project (explaining phenomenal experience) was a failure. Yet he sees that he must explain why people report about consciousness rather than consciousness itself.
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