Substrate Specificity: Do Different Minds Need Different Materials?
March 31, 2025
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12 mins read
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Is consciousness truly independent of its physical implementation, or do different substrates create fundamentally different forms of mind? Exploring the relationship between physical medium and conscious experience across scales, with implications for the development of synthetic consciousness.