Do digital minds already exist to a very limited extent?

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• Digital minds with humanlike capabilities could think at least thousands of times, and perhaps millions of times, faster than humans given sufficient hardwarehypothesis0.815
  Grounds the subjective speed dimension of super-beneficiary status
• Digital Mindsconcept0.803
  Central subject of the paper: artificially created minds with conscious experiences, desires, and autonomous decision-making
• Reproductive Capacity of Digital Mindsconcept0.775
  The ease and speed of exact reproduction of software, enabling exponential population growth of digital minds
• Can computers be conscious? Or more specifically, can today's computers fully emulate the way in which organisms compute minds?question0.775
  Central research question motivating the entire paper
• How Can Cognition Exist At Scales Beyond Thequestion0.773
• Does Consciousness Exist On A Continuum Rather Thanquestion0.773
• Would advocating discrimination between digital minds and humans be akin to espousing some doctrine of racial supremacy?question0.772
  Rhetorical question challenging human-privilege arguments in section 3.2
• Intelligence and cognition exist on a continuum; modern bioscience offers no support for clean bright-line distinctions between cognitive and non-cognitive beings.claim0.770
  Anti-essentialism claim: questions like 'is it cognitive?' are scientifically unjustified; modern view must ask 'what kind' and 'how much'.