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Re:We Are Beast Machines by GonzaloRizzo on Friday October 15, 2021 @01:09PM (#28880152)
So if there's such a thing as "being the computer" could we say that a computer experiences qualia and it is somewhat conscious?
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Re:We Are Beast Machines by joeberon on Saturday October 16, 2021 @04:20AM (#28886358)
Yes, people who believe that consciousness is an emergent property of sufficiently complicated systems would say that a sufficiently complicated computer experiences qualia and is conscious.
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