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Re:4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles by wildmusings on Monday November 21, 2016 @05:27PM (#13009811)
My point is that if a machine can "create" consciousness through computation, but computation itself doesn't make the result any more real, then didn't the created consciousness exist all along?
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Re:4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles by monort on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @05:06AM (#13013006)
That is the idea of mathematical universe of Tegmark:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothes...

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Re:4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles by russdill on Monday November 21, 2016 @06:01PM (#13010073)
Right, which is what I'm saying. It wouldn't make sense otherwise. It would mean that the result of the computation didn't depend on consciousness in the first place.
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