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… ice cubes as independent things even though they are intimately linked as part of the same system. How does this happen? Out of all possible outcomes, why do we perceive this solution?
Tegmark borrows the term computronium to describe matter that can do this and cites other work showing that today’s computers underperfor…
…s. First, the system must be able to store and process large amounts of information. In other words consciousness is essentially a phenomenon of information.