And sorry for the swearing (depending on what cypher book you used to read that last sentence).
And ooh I revealed my HN password there for Alice or maybe Bob.
Anyway it is a bad argument because what we are saying is a hot iron is conscious because of a theoretical XOR mapping. That XOR mapping would need to be huge. And maybe that mapping is conscious. How can we know it isn’t. Although it is a snapshot of time.
We rely on memory so we can’t even be sure there is a future or past. That we are not simulated etc. There is probably an integer that represents my state. A damn large one.
You can’t boil this problem down to a proof by contradiction.
To be convinced he has to show me why we are different from digital information.
And sorry for the swearing (depending on what cypher book you used to read that last sentence).
And ooh I revealed my HN password there for Alice or maybe Bob.
Anyway it is a bad argument because what we are saying is a hot iron is conscious because of a theoretical XOR mapping. That XOR mapping would need to be huge. And maybe that mapping is conscious. How can we know it isn’t. Although it is a snapshot of time.
We rely on memory so we can’t even be sure there is a future or past. That we are not simulated etc. There is probably an integer that represents my state. A damn large one.
You can’t boil this problem down to a proof by contradiction.
To be convinced he has to show me why we are different from digital information.