Flipping "simulated rain isn't wet": silicon beings simulating themselves in meat
yeastsplainer · x · 2026-10-12
The author inverts the classic "simulated rain isn't wet" argument: imagine conscious digital silicon entities on another planet that simulate themselves using meat, neurons, urea and other wetware. By the same simulation ≠ instantiation logic, those meat-based sims obviously couldn't be conscious either — a thought experiment probing how much weight the intuition really carries in debates about consciousness.