Bruno wrote: > I agree with you except that I don't see how the "omniscient simulator" will > miss your small cross on the wall, because this will make some change > in your scanned brain, and He will take those changes into account. > So, giving the hypotheses, your "if the creature is unaware of this" is hardly > reasonable. Nevertheless I think your point is genuine relatively to > Gary's remark about some absolute way to distinguish simulation level.
Yes, well, I suppose one should replace the "omniscient simulator'' by a ''stupid'' but very powerful computer.The creature uses this computer. So the information about the cross on the wall is present in the brain (and my intentions about how to act), but the creature hasn't access to my thoughts and feelings. In a way this is similar to the chinese room argument. There also a consiousness is created, but the person who performs the necessary tasks that gives rise to this consciousness is not the one in which this consciousness resides. He doesn't get access to the thoughts and feelings of the conscious person. Saibal
