It seems that consciousness requires some type of thought, and that
thought requires the system to self-modify. A static representation of
the Turing machine then does not meet this requirement.
So a Turing machine that is not running is not conscious.
As Nisan asked above: Is this Turing machine conscious if you don’t run it?
It seems that consciousness requires some type of thought, and that thought requires the system to self-modify. A static representation of the Turing machine then does not meet this requirement.
So a Turing machine that is not running is not conscious.
Is there another perspective to consider?