Mike Israetel: commitment

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…So if if you had a simulation of fire in a computer or of a stomach, it wouldn't digest. Fire wouldn't get hot. Water wouldn't get wet. It would digest. We we can't even I mean, this is just we can't even be debating this. I can and I will. Watch this. If you have a simulation of a stomach, particle by particle, and you get a simulation of food particles through the stomach, it will digest that simulation. That's real digestion particle by particle, high fidelity. Okay. So so we were talking about temperature earlier, which is like an intensive property of adaptive matter. It it is a thing when certain particles in the real world, this I'm talking about the stuff that it's made of. When they interact with each other in a certain way, you get this emergent property, this kind of coarse graining, and we call it temperature. Intelligence is like that. Consciousness is like that. This is what John Searle was arguing in his Chinese room argument. He basically said that the brain is a certain type of physical instantiation which gives rise. So if you look at its causal graph, the causal graph has these strongly emergent coarse grained properties that we call consciousness. Wetness is like that. Heat is like that. You you can't seriously tell me that if you simulate fire using a computer program that that the computer would get hot or that you would get hot. It it just doesn't work like that.…

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