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I don't think so because any stateful function can be made stateless just by making its state an input, and vice versa. They're mathematically equivalent, so it
by IshKebab 6d ago
I don't think so because any stateful function can be made stateless just by making its state an input, and vice versa. They're mathematically equivalent, so it would be super weird if it had any implications for consciousness.
- joshheitzman 6d agoThis assumes the functionality of brains can be fully captured as a deterministic mathematical function, but the function of the brain may well depend on nondeterministic quantum states that can't be reduced to stateless functions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind