On 6/10/2020 8:50 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
Thought perhaps there's an argument to be made from the church Turing theses, which pertains to possible states of knowledge accessible to a computer program/software. If consciousness is viewed as software then Church-Turing thesis implies that software could never know/realize if it's ultimate computing substrate changed.
I don't understand the import of this. The very concept of software mean "independent of hardware" by definition. It is not affected by whether CT is true or not, whether the computation is finite or not. If you think that consciousness evolved then it is an obvious inference that consciousness would not include consciousness of it's hardware implementation.
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