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Consciousness belongs only to simulations, not to the physical brains or computers running them.

Drawn from what Samuel Hammond said

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consciousness What it is for there to be something it is like to be a system, and whether that can be measured.

Can a machine be conscious?under our view: Consciousness is something a physical system does, real even though it is not fundamental

What Samuel Hammond actually said

  1. Samuel Hammond Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation
    neither brains nor computers are conscious, as only simulations can be conscious.

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