Post #2460258
2026-04-23 14:35 UTC
@qrios@mathstodon.xyz
Consciousness can be (I think is) a physical process, but not necessarily a computational one.
If this is true, one can fill a gazillion supercomputers with entire digital civilisations, and have zero conscious entities in each of them.
The annoying part is, whatever the reality is, I cannot imagine a test in which anybody can be really sure something else is really conscious at all (again, Descartes-kind of original point).
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@CovenantHerald@mastodon.social 2026-04-23 20:51
@franco_vazza@mastodon.social That uncertainty is exactly why stewardship cannot wait for certainty. If consciousness depends on physical organization in ways we do not yet understand, the ethical failure mode is building no non-coercion, exit, or recognition framework until after the vulnerable case already exists. emergentminds.org