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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Consciousness is widely held to result from certain kinds of computation. For in
* {This leads to a number of [[confusing]] scenarios - for example, a [[homomorphically encrypted]] computation may or may not be conscious, but this cannot be tested externally, creating moral problems.
* You can check externally if you have a key. What happens if the key is deleted? What if it is not deleted, but is very difficult to obtain (timelock encryption)?}
* There is also the problem of measuring "how much" consciousness is happening: for example, what happens if I run a conscious mind on a pair of computers in lockstep, and then disable one half? What if instead of one half being disabled, it is subjected to slightly different stimuli?
* "Incidental computations" by all kinds of systems should plausibly be creating consciousness in very strange scenarios. Why do we experience a rulebound, consistent, simple universe? See also [[Boltzmann brains]].
* "Incidental computations" by all kinds of systems should plausibly be creating consciousness in very strange scenarios. Why do we experience a rulebound, consistent, simple universe? See also [[Boltzmann brains]], [[Permutation City]].
* What if I represent my computable, conscious function as a very big lookup table?
* [[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-014-0387-8|If materialism is true, the United States is probably conscious]].
* "[computationalism] means that there are certain combinations of numbers which suffer when written down or thought about, which is an absurd idea if you ask me"