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> If you scan a body of water, and simulate it perfectly, the resulting simulation will not be wet.

It will be wet to the simulated being that's swimming in it.

> Consciousness may be a result of carbon being a substrate in the interactions.

Are you conscious? If so, how did you find out that you're made from actual carbon atoms and not simulated ones?



> It will be wet to the simulated being that's swimming in it.

Which has an entirely different qualia to us, the beings who consciousness we are trying to unravel.

> Are you conscious?

That's the big question.

> If so, how did you find out that you're made from actual carbon atoms and not simulated ones?

If I assume I'm conscious, whatever my atoms are, they are the atoms of concern with regard to said consciousness.




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