Thanks for clearing up the sloppiness of my query in the process of responding to it. You enumerated a number of possible responses, but you haven’t committed a classical em of you to a specific one. Are you just not sure what it would do?
It’s a very hypothetical scenario, so being not sure is, surely, the correct response. But I revert to pondering what I might do if in real life it looks like conscious states are computational macrostates. I would have to go on trying to find a perspective on physics whereby such states exist objectively and have causal power, and in which they could somehow look like or be identified with subjective experience. Insofar as my emulation concerned itself with the problem of consciousness, it might do that.
Thanks for clearing up the sloppiness of my query in the process of responding to it. You enumerated a number of possible responses, but you haven’t committed a classical em of you to a specific one. Are you just not sure what it would do?
It’s a very hypothetical scenario, so being not sure is, surely, the correct response. But I revert to pondering what I might do if in real life it looks like conscious states are computational macrostates. I would have to go on trying to find a perspective on physics whereby such states exist objectively and have causal power, and in which they could somehow look like or be identified with subjective experience. Insofar as my emulation concerned itself with the problem of consciousness, it might do that.
Thanks for entertaining this thought experiment.