Comment on Framing Consciousness

Fri, 08 May 2009 12:23:31 GMT

Now I think I don't get your objection. What does it mean for a number to "be something"? What if we stop the computer and run a single step of the simulation with pen and paper? And for the next step, run an unrelated calculation that searches for it within the digits of pi. Where exactly do you draw the line at which the conscious things inside the algorithm suddenly stop being conscious?

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