HA, that’s what you get for paying compliments around here!
IL, think of it like this. If you simulated a conscious being one moment-slice at a time, presumably you’d think of it as ‘conscious’. So if you simulate all those moment-slices at once, why would it be any less conscious? Whatever the detail, we are reasonably certain that The Passage Of Time is not a fundamental element of the universe, but rather the way we seem to experience things.
Has anyone else read Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-5? Great plotline about alien beings who experience all of their lives simultaneously.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc....
HA, that’s what you get for paying compliments around here!
IL, think of it like this. If you simulated a conscious being one moment-slice at a time, presumably you’d think of it as ‘conscious’. So if you simulate all those moment-slices at once, why would it be any less conscious? Whatever the detail, we are reasonably certain that The Passage Of Time is not a fundamental element of the universe, but rather the way we seem to experience things.
Has anyone else read Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-5? Great plotline about alien beings who experience all of their lives simultaneously.