Is PI Alive?
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Suppose consciousness may be simulated by a Turing complete machine. Now suppose a computer with infinite resources begins to randomly switch bits until it simulates consciousness. Randomness over enough time will produce every possible configuration of bits. Given that transcendental numbers are infinite with no repeating patterns, could one assume that if you were to calculate PI forever, at some point flashes of consciousness would appear? Suppose enough time passes to randomly simulate not only solitary flashes of consciousness, but highly improbable, but entirely inevitable seconds, minutes, years, lifetimes of consciousness. Could an advanced species warp the universe to etch their conspicuousness into the very fabric of reality itself?
