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Michal Ryszard Wojcik's avatar

No way. A pen and pencil instantiation is ontologically equivalent to a computer program?

Lukasz Stafiniak's avatar

An instantiation is not a program. Pen and pencil are not equivalent to a silicon chip computer, but there is just one program.

Michal Ryszard Wojcik's avatar

I mean that the chatbot and the human brain may be running the same algorithm at a certain level of abstraction and then it's cognitively the same event but not physically. One may be an experience the other may not. Therefore, talking about phenomenonal consciousness is about physics rather than cognition.

Lukasz Stafiniak's avatar

I have a metaphysics article scheduled for March 16th. Various levels of description capture various real patterns. There is a level of description for capturing experience/consciousness.