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Mehvixlast Saturday at 3:11 AM1 replyview on HN

how are we going to deduce/measure/know the initialization and rules for consciousness? do you see any systems as not encodable/simulatable by quantum?


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_alternator_last Saturday at 2:56 PM

I think you are asking whether consciousness might be a fundamentally different “thing” from physics and thus hard or impossible to simulate.

I think there is abundant evidence that the answer is ‘no’. The main reason is that consciousness doesn’t give you new physics, it follows the same rules and restrictions. It seems to be “part of” the standard natural universe, not something distinct.