Probably some mind-simulations aren’t conscious—it would feel weird to me if a system that was mostly a lookup table was conscious. But there are probably astronomically more efficient ways to get qualia from atoms than biological humans, and there are some reasons to believe that such organizations of matter matter a lot for the long-term future.
Probably some mind-simulations aren’t conscious—it would feel weird to me if a system that was mostly a lookup table was conscious. But there are probably astronomically more efficient ways to get qualia from atoms than biological humans, and there are some reasons to believe that such organizations of matter matter a lot for the long-term future.