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Virtual Machines & Consciousness

Virtual Machines

Information processors that are independent of physical realization

It this just a Turing Machine? A Program? An Algorithm? All share the multiple-realizability condition

With special constraints: causal linkages & true counterfactual conditionals

Dualism & Mental Causation

Is the fly conscious?

Not just yes or no, yes in some ways, no in others

Is this the right kind of consciousness?

Does it cover all the kinds of conscious?

information processing system

as opposed to: qualia, "what its like"

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