On 7 May 2015 at 09:08, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> It seems to me that the first thing to do when starting a Reductio ad >>> absurdum proof is to make sure the conclusion really is absurd, and this >>> one isn't >>> >> >> > It may not be absurd, but its counter to the assumptions of the >> experiment, that consciousness is the result of a computation. A recording >> may be stored statically on a hard drive or other medium, it is not a >> computation. >> > > And as I explained subjectively it makes absolutely no difference if the > same conscious AI program is run one time or run a trillion times, and it > makes no difference if a recording of one of those computations is played > back or is not played back, subjectively the end result of all those > scenarios is exactly the same, one and only one conscious experience. >
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