Post #2460256
2026-04-23 14:31 UTC
@qrios@mathstodon.xyz
I am really not an expert of consciousness (TBH: who is??), but I read a lot of what is there.
If by chance an Electromagnetic model of consciousness is right (clearly not the mainstream scenario, but a legitimate one as well) consciousness would emerge from the physical overlap of EM fields - not their simulated version, really the fields. Meaning you can produce it only having wires arranged with the same topology of real brains.
So..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_theories_of_consciousness#cite_note-10
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@franco_vazza@mastodon.social 2026-04-23 14:33
@qrios@mathstodon.xyz ...so you really have to build the hardware of a single brain, with its real 3D structure down to the atomic level, to get one consciousness. This does not seem scalable at all to me, so the entire argument of "we might one of the infinite number of digital conscious being in the future" does not follow. Again, this only one example of what I meant. The whole simulation hypothesis starts from a GIANT step: consciousness is just a computational process. What is the proof?