Emlyn wrote:
>
> Samantha Atkins wrote:
> > >
> > > Emlyn wrote:
> > > > The problem is that we are equating consciousness with
> information.
> > > > I don't think that it is information.
> > >
> >
> > Is a computer program information? Yes, when looked at statically as
> > bits, no when considered dynamically running in some system.
>
> Exactly! And consciousness it the running program (process), or even an
> emergent property of the process, and not in any way is it the program
> itself. Techies metaphor: One program, run twice, yields two distinct
> processes.
Ah, but this brings up another can of worms. If the nature of the
system (in this case consciousness) is dependent not only on the bits
but on the surrounding and embedding actual context it is "executing"
within, then this adds fuel to the argument that your consciousness bits
instantiated and running on some super-computer or within a cloned body
is NOT you.
- samantha
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