If digital computers are conscious, they are conscious at the hardware level

The digital story

If digital computers are conscious, they are conscious at the hardware level is a developing story worth watching.

The impact

The significance lies in what happens next: Hacker News notes that responses are already forming.

The digital backdrop

The landscape around digital, computers, conscious, conscious, hardware has been shifting for some time, and Hacker News places this development within that longer trajectory.

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Our digital read

Signal Ledger follows stories like this for the second-order effects they trigger in digital, computers, conscious, conscious, hardware.