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		hoseja on June 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Consciousness is not computation I don't think it's maintained over the conversation. The recent history of the conversation is fed to the engine with each new interaction. So the potential flash of consciousness is even shorter than you think. Each reply is a new flash, without memory, only connected by the written content of recent text.

sdenton4 on June 20, 2022 [–]

And that's just fine!

Quite reminiscent of 'Permutation City' in fact... (In which uploaded human consciousness is slowed down arbitrarily... And worse.)

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