Yes... but the chip doesn't know anything about it's
counterfactualness. It *is* here-and-now, and to it,
*you* are the future. Perhaps consciousness is
relative. You could say that "to itself" or to
anything else that coexisted with it in the same
counterfactual universe that it "is" conscious... and
that to you it isn't. Just as, to a being (SI?) able
to predict your every move and thought, you are just
living the inevitable, and are therefore, to it,
undergoing something equating a counterfactual
existence... it's mind is already preparing for a
reaction a few years down the road, and you are merely
experiencing the here and now... the past, in a way,
and so relatively counterfactualesque.
That last arguement seemed a bit shaky to me, but
I think it doesn't necessarily mean that my main point
is ill-spoken. Perhaps one could consider
consciousness to be relative to the observer.
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