From 75fafd1e7152432223f8217aaaf42aa458a54e9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: osmarks Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 21:14:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Edit=20=E2=80=98consciousness=E2=80=99?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- consciousness.myco | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/consciousness.myco b/consciousness.myco index fa3b69a..ed5366c 100644 --- a/consciousness.myco +++ b/consciousness.myco @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Consciousness is widely held to result from certain kinds of computation. For in * 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]]. * 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]] === Dualism