If digital computers are conscious, they are conscious at the hardware level
- Contemporary debate over the moral patienthood of digital minds misses the forest for the trees.
- Mainstream opinion is divided into physicalist and computationalist camps, who believe that consciousness is substrate dependent and substrate independent, respectively.
- For this reason, those on the physicalist side frequently make the claim that digital computers will never be conscious.
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- Contemporary debate over the moral patienthood of digital minds misses the forest for the trees.
- Mainstream opinion is divided into physicalist and computationalist camps, who believe that consciousness is substrate dependent and substrate independent, respectively.
- For this reason, those on the physicalist side frequently make the claim that digital computers will never be conscious.
Sources: Smoothbrains