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Sure, but again, it doesn't mean that "integers can be conscious". It means that a sequence of changing integers can be.


Any sequence is also an integer. Don’t forget how large the number line is ;)


I get your point, but you still need a time arrow to say that something is conscious. Sure, you can e.g. encode all the states of the system over time and represent it as one big-ass integer, but at that point the most that you could say is that what the integer describes was conscious.




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