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The conscious system is so high above the guy shuffling rulebooks and slips of paper it has no concept of him. A billion years might pass for the Room to experience a second. Just as we have basically no concept of the baroque quantum-molecular-cellular machinery of our brains. There are very roughly 10^15~18 light-sensitive molecules in your eye so you can see. With our best computers it's very hard to precisely simulate a single one of them. Just ponder the insane scale.



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