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Re:What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physic... by chriswarbo on Friday August 12, 2016 @06:42AM (#12274519)
> Are you really arguing that a scribbling numbers on a piece of paper could give rise to a conscious being?

Yes. I find that no less plausible than a warm sack of meat giving rise to a conscious being.

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Re:What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physic... by wildmusings on Saturday August 13, 2016 @12:02AM (#12280215)
I agree, which is why I suspect that consciousness is the result of some fundamental non-computable phenomenon that our minds tap into to perform some useful function.
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