Also, I take it that this means you don’t believe in the whole, “if a program implements consciousness, then it must be conscious while sitting passively on the hard disk” thing. I remember this came up before in the quantum series and it seemed to me absurd, sort of for the reasons you say.
Rocks are naturally formed. It’s not physically impossible for natural processes to form silicon into a working computer, but it’s certainly not likely.
Isn’t a silicon chip technically a rock?
Also, I take it that this means you don’t believe in the whole, “if a program implements consciousness, then it must be conscious while sitting passively on the hard disk” thing. I remember this came up before in the quantum series and it seemed to me absurd, sort of for the reasons you say.
Rocks are naturally formed. It’s not physically impossible for natural processes to form silicon into a working computer, but it’s certainly not likely.