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What’s the difference between real consciousness and simulated in silico consciousness? If the fake consciousness is good enough there shouldn’t be any.

Is a soul made out of matrix multiplications and dot products worse than a soul made of neurons?

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I like to call it carbon chauvinism. There are people who believe that no matter how high the simulation fidelity, no matter the level you simulate the neurons, you can't simulate consciousness. I think they can be safely ignored until after we've tried.

The problem with that stance is that it really is "until we succeed", which might never come.

So that's why it is similarly exclusionary: I think we should try, but also look to see if we can learn more to maybe rule it out altogether.

> I think we should try, but also look to see if we can learn more to maybe rule it out altogether.

Who's stopping you?

This is the kind of question that every NonSTEM people would struggle at. Given function F and G. For all input x, resulting F(x) = G(x), this indicate that obviously F and G is the same thing whether inside or outside.

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