People thought intelligence was special until LLMs proved that it arises from simple rules scaled to complexity. People who think consciousness is special will once again be surprised when the first uploaded human explains what it feels like to be substrate independent
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substance 4 · opinion · rank 159 · Consciousness is not magically special and can exist independently of biological substrates.
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"People who think consciousness is special will once again be surprised when the first uploaded human explains what it feels like to be substrate independent" that still doesn't mean that the uploaded human is *not* a p-zombie
consciousness is not special, the issue is finding a transfer method that retains continuity of consciousness