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If you do that, and load some information from a slow storage device (hard disk), calculate on it for a hundred years, then write it back, load some more, repeat, until you have computed "one planck time" accross your entire simulated universe...

... at what point in the loading, crunching, saving, does the information inside feel concious and self aware 'in realtime'?



Since this could apply to your life being run on a different substrate, with no actual effect on your perception, I don't see how this is a useful question.




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