A sufficiently advanced simulation on any substrate would have this property—the simulated qualia would feed back on the simulated world.
Correct, but both still are just simulated. The qualia that are actually occurring are those associated with the simulator substrate, not those associated with the simulated world, and in the context of the simulated world, they would not make sense.
“Qualia are not pure “outputs”: they feed back on the rest of the world.”
A sufficiently advanced simulation on any substrate would have this property—the simulated qualia would feed back on the simulated world.
Maybe the qualia of people who ACTUALLY have bodies are completely different from yours, a person who has no body.
Wow. You actually said that.
DV for being unconstructive.
(He was constructive—see the first sentence. You downvoted him because he was also rude.)
I cannot determine the difference between my heavily downvoted comment and this one:
“http://lesswrong.com/lw/57e/we_are_not_living_in_a_simulation/3wxb″
Mine is more abridged and might be unclear, but that doesn’t seem worth 13 karma points. I am confused.
I did not downvote you, but the following looked to me superficially like an insult:
People react badly to personal insults. I am not sure that you really intended an insult, which is one reason I didn’t downvote.
If you replaced “brains” with “bodies” in your comment, it would make the same point and not look like an insult.
Correct, but both still are just simulated. The qualia that are actually occurring are those associated with the simulator substrate, not those associated with the simulated world, and in the context of the simulated world, they would not make sense.
Proof?