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      • JGrffn@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        If everything is perfectly simulated, the rules that allow consciousness to emerge are also there, and thus consciousness would emerge, regardless of whether it’s a simulation or reality. If we only simulate a consciousness without laws of reality, that consciousness would still be designed to mimic a consciousness from a reality with laws (ours), and since it would be a perfect simulation (and it would have to be so in order to run meaningful tests), that consciousness might as well be as real as us. Thus, unethical.

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            1 year ago

            Consciousness existing everywhere is the simplest explanation that fits the known fact: that consciousness exists here.

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              1 year ago

              Well we only know that we are conscious ourselves, there are no actual proof that anyone else is conscious. I mean it’s probable, but not proven.

              So the only thing I can be sure about is that I am conscious, not that anyone else is.