diff --git a/consciousness.myco b/consciousness.myco index e0cb67e..594b21c 100644 --- a/consciousness.myco +++ b/consciousness.myco @@ -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"