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		SirHound on May 18, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Electrons May Well Be Conscious Looking around at other living creatures it looks as if consciousness is a gradient. Several factors could move you up and down the gradient (to simplify), and I'd imagine that the speed of data transmission would be one of those. So as far as the thought experiment goes, I'd imagine the pen and paper method of transmission would be slow enough to knock the "brain" off the consciousness scale completely.

dodobirdlord on May 18, 2020 [–]

If you have a slow simulation process you can just run it in slowed-down simulation time.

SirHound on May 18, 2020 | [–]

But there might be a link between the time-density of the simulation and the emergence of consciousness.

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