Conscious digital beings don’t exist, so you’re asking a speculative question about something that’s already very speculative. IMO it’s premature to give it serious consideration.
Also depending on how you define consciousness and its ability to exist in a simulation that fruit fly that had its brain copied identically and simulated might disagree with you lol
Idk why it shouldn’t be considered, it’s far more plausible than artificial superintelligence and there’s thousands of papers, books, etc on that.
I think the only reason why it hasn’t really been considered in the AI research space is because it doesn’t really pose an existential threat to humanity.
Conscious digital beings don’t exist, so you’re asking a speculative question about something that’s already very speculative. IMO it’s premature to give it serious consideration.
Also depending on how you define consciousness and its ability to exist in a simulation that fruit fly that had its brain copied identically and simulated might disagree with you lol
Also in case you wanna learn more about this lol
Original connectome: https://www.virtualflybrain.org/
The recent project built off of that: https://eon.systems/updates/embodied-brain-emulation
Idk why it shouldn’t be considered, it’s far more plausible than artificial superintelligence and there’s thousands of papers, books, etc on that.
I think the only reason why it hasn’t really been considered in the AI research space is because it doesn’t really pose an existential threat to humanity.