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The upcoming ALIFE 2023 conference is hosting a workshop on AI Alignment and Artificial Life. This will complement the special session on AI Alignment at the conference. The workshop will include presentations and a discussion panel from established AI Alignment and ALife researchers, exploring the overlap between these two fields....

These are some hypothetical scenarios involving emulating a (human) mind on a digital computer. They seem to present counterintuitive implications for the question of whether an emulated mind would actually be conscious or not. This relates to the question of whether consciousness is substrate independent, and whether consciousness is fundamentally...