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Melon Husk has made *so* many illogical leaps here. The most obvious one being that simulated computer game characters will one day be capable of experiencing themselves subjectively. Because otherwise there's nowhere else we could be, but "base reality", as he puts it.

Is computer science going to achieve that? It seems unlikely, mainly because there are good reasons to think it might be philosophically impossible. Let's unpack this a bit.

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