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I think an easier proxy for consciousness is simulation hypothesis: how would you know if you were a simulation of the sort Bostrom and others think is highly probable. I think that's a bad hypothesis for entirely different reasons, but IF it were reasonable, how would you tell
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The sort of character-who-knows-they're-in-a-story problem is very challenging. Somewhere between Truman Show and Plato's cave I think. The Johnstone's masks tack seems correct to me. Have you read Huizenga's Homo Ludens? That seems germane here as well.
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