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Conscious AI hypothetical

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-15 23:43

Suppose we have a conscious computer program; a program which, when executed, is conscious. We save the memory states and IO from the program at every stage of its execution, and then replay each state, one by one, on a second computer, without actually executing the program. Is the second computer conscious too?

In other words, if a computer is conscious, does its consciousness derive from the instructions it executes, or from the series of states it transitions between?

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-22 20:17

It's actually very simple. We don't even need to define consciousness: as long as we agree that consciousness implies being able to react to stimuli from the outside world (which it does) it's obvious that the second computer isn't conscious; that would be like saying that a video of a person is conscious: even if it looks like a person, you can't ask it questions.

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