[danielbln]

Our own conscious continuuity is an illusion. We only really experience a single moment at a time, moment to moment. Anything else is memory. What happens if you attach memory to a sufficiently advanced algorithm? Qualia? Subjective experience? I don't know, but neither do you or anyone else for that matter.

[agronomov]

I am not talking about consciousness though, I couldn't care less about it! I am talking about the subjective feeling of existence, which is what you and I feel in every one of those disjoint moments. And the only reason I know that you feel it, is because I feel it and you're like me. If you sere made of silicon, I wouldn't know, and should not assume that you could