Promotes digital CF
Serves primarily to promote digital CF positions in philosophy of mind, but may also be applied elsewhere. See here for discussion of positions.
4 supporting
Supporting Arguments (4)
Church Turing Thesis
Most natural processes are computable, so it's likely consciousness is too.
Key Argument, Methodology, Substrate, Behavioural, Ontology, Computational, Promotes digital CF
Cognitive Science & AI Success Argument
Computational models have been very successful at reproducing cognition, so they will eventually reproduce phenomenal consciousness too.
Behavioural, Methodology, Computational, Promotes digital CF
Informational Ontologies
If reality is fundamentally made of information, then consciousness is a form of (substrate independent) information processing.
Methodology, Epiphenomenalism, Ontology, Computational, Promotes digital CF
Simulation Hypothesis
Existing theories of physics are generally understood as being unable to rule out that our entire universe is being simulated at the fundamental physics level on a Turing-equivalent architecture (the simulation hypothesis)
Computational, Promotes digital CF