Mitchell_Porter comments on Consciousness of simulations & uploads: a reductio - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 22 August 2010 04:15:36AM -1 points [-]

I once took this reductio in the opposite direction and ended up becoming convinced that consciousness is what it feels like inside a logically consistent description of a mind-state, whether or not it is instantiated anywhere.

Do you think the world outside your body is still there when you're asleep? That objects are still there when you close your eyes?