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A comment on A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Everything (1999). Parent comment

Re:A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Ev... by lightlazer on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @06:54AM (#14096461)
So you are going to try build the Autoverse in Permutation City? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City
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Re:A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Ev... by goldenkey on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @07:29AM (#14096635)
In some respects but consciousness is unknown with regard to it. I am defining life as intelligent computing machines that remain stable through consumption of their environment. Whether or not the life created is conscious is a deep question.

Consciousness is a hard problem.

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

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