This seems to hinge on something you haven’t defined nor attempted to measure: consciousness. You’ve left out some possibilities:
perhaps nothing is conscious.
perhaps only you are conscious and the rest of who you perceive are automata.
perhaps everything is conscious. every calculation does indeed feel.
perhaps consciousness and qualia aren’t even close to what we’ve considered.
Basically, why would you expect that ANY consciousness exists, if a simulation/calculation doesn’t have it? all the creatures you see are just neural calculations/reactions, aren’t they? I’ll grant that you may have special knowledge that you yourself exist, but what makes you believe anyone else does?
This seems to hinge on something you haven’t defined nor attempted to measure: consciousness. You’ve left out some possibilities:
perhaps nothing is conscious.
perhaps only you are conscious and the rest of who you perceive are automata.
perhaps everything is conscious. every calculation does indeed feel.
perhaps consciousness and qualia aren’t even close to what we’ve considered.
Basically, why would you expect that ANY consciousness exists, if a simulation/calculation doesn’t have it? all the creatures you see are just neural calculations/reactions, aren’t they? I’ll grant that you may have special knowledge that you yourself exist, but what makes you believe anyone else does?