198. Bernardo Kastrup on the Nature of Reality: Materialism, Idealism, or Skepticism
The Michael Shermer Show
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Is There Consciousness in Computer Programming?
We have one instance in nature where we know with a very high degree of confidence that there is conscious inther life. And that is for biological organisms that metabolize. If you go to silicom, it's a completely different substrait. The simulation is not the thing simulated. We never make this mistake unless it comes to consciousness. It's really eculiar. i presume you could just take this out infinitely, and you'd still never, at some point reach a number in which you'd say, there, that's where conscious awareness begins. Is that your point correct?
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