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If materialism is true, the United States is probably conscious

35 points · 103 comments · ashergill

  1. UltraSane · · focus · HN ↗
    One of the strangest implications of the idea that a computer simulation of a human brain would be conscious is that you can also just have humans do the same math manually trillions of times slower and it would still be conscious.
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