New Paper Argues Machine Consciousness Impossible on Serial Hardware

Michael Timothy Bennett's new arXiv paper argues that consciousness depends on the continuity of physical time and cannot be simulated by Turing-style computation on serial hardware. Neuroscientist Anil Seth shared the "temporal argument" as a key counterpoint to computational functionalism, tracing it to UCLA's Dean Buonomano.

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