As much as I might try to find holes in the analogy, I still insisted I ought to upvote your comment, because frankly, it had to be said.
In trying to find those holes, I actually came to agree with your analogy well: The story is recreated in the mind/brain by each individual reader, and does not necessarily depend on the format. In the same way, if consciousness has a physical presence that it lacked in a simulation, then we will need to account for and simulate that as well. It may even eventually be possible to design and experiment to show that the raw mechanism of consciousness and its simulation were the same thing. Barring any possibility of simulation of perception, we can think of our minds as books to be read my a massive biologically-resembling brain that would retain such a mechanism, allowing the full re-creation of our conscious in that brain from a state of initially being a simulation that it reads. I have to say, once I’m aware I’m a simulation, I’m not terribly concerned about transferring to different mediums of simulation.
As much as I might try to find holes in the analogy, I still insisted I ought to upvote your comment, because frankly, it had to be said.
In trying to find those holes, I actually came to agree with your analogy well: The story is recreated in the mind/brain by each individual reader, and does not necessarily depend on the format. In the same way, if consciousness has a physical presence that it lacked in a simulation, then we will need to account for and simulate that as well. It may even eventually be possible to design and experiment to show that the raw mechanism of consciousness and its simulation were the same thing. Barring any possibility of simulation of perception, we can think of our minds as books to be read my a massive biologically-resembling brain that would retain such a mechanism, allowing the full re-creation of our conscious in that brain from a state of initially being a simulation that it reads. I have to say, once I’m aware I’m a simulation, I’m not terribly concerned about transferring to different mediums of simulation.