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by jacobsimon 762 days ago
I don’t follow you. I’m saying we haven’t discovered any inorganic consciousness, so it isn’t a given that we will be able to create it with digital computers. Not sure how that breaks the laws of physics.
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"We haven't discovered any inorganic flying machines, so it isn't a given that we will be able to create them with metal."

Turns out that if you get the structure right you can mimic the effect. Mimic the brain structure in silicon and you will get a similar effect. Just like how birds and airplanes are similar but different.

Programmers seem to forget about how physics is the reason there's np-hard problems.
Humans aren't better at solving NP-hard problems so I don't really see the connection with consciousness here.