Post #2460253
2026-04-22 07:06 UTC
For example, if consciousness is the product of electro-magnetic fields overlapping in a complex way only because the brain topology is such (there are honest models about this), no computer whatsoever can produce conscious entities, and the entire classical SH's argument won't apply.
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@franco_vazza@mastodon.social 2026-04-22 07:08
On the other hand, I consider it a very useful philosophical problem, if you want to show the limits of objective science: - how can you prove someone else is conscious? - how can you prove anything is real, beside your subjective experience? - how can you prove there is not a bigger reality? Etc. But already Renè Descartes said most of the useful things there, the modern SM just gives a technological spin to it.
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@qrios@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-23 13:49
@franco_vazza@mastodon.social You are running simulations of systems with "electro-magnetic fields overlapping in a complex way". Why is the one simulation possible and valid and the other is not? (I'm not saying these models of consciousness are plausible.)