Is there a distinction between simulating and instantiating a machine?

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• Simulation-Instantiation Problemconcept0.785
  Simulating biological computation on digital hardware is fundamentally different from instantiating it; SpiNNaker example shows digital neuromorphic systems miss consciousness-relevant properties.
• Simulator vs simulacra distinctionconcept0.777
  The ontological separation between the generative rule (simulator) and the instances it produces (simulacra).
• In order to actually do anything, the model must act through simulation of something.claim0.758
  Key consequence: GPT's power comes from simulating something contingent.
• "It is certainly very hard, and perhaps impossible, for mere humans to anticipate and rule out in advance all the disastrous ways the machine could choose to achieve a specified objective."quote0.751
  Russell's statement opening Section 2 articulating the core motivation for the Contemplative AI approach
• It's tricky, because for a typical language model the entity is sort of tricameral: the base simulator, the simulated simulator, and the simulated awareness.quote0.745
  Antra's earlier definitive statement of the tricameral model.
• Process simulation with drawingsmethod0.743
  The use of hand-drawn simulations to visualize step-by-step unfolding of the four-fold pattern over time.
• At what point does one go from a 'real person with perhaps some irrelevant mechanical augmentations' to a 'robot that is just simulating their social interactions'?question0.741
  Highlights the difficulty of distinguishing personhood based on composition or origin.
• The notion of 'machine' used to claim living things are not machines refers to an outdated definition that no longer fits.claim0.739
  First central claim of the paper: the machine concept used in organicist critiques is historically contingent, not essential