AI and consciousness, second half

About consciousness and computers, I gave three possibilities for the effect of consciousness:

- Consciousness might let the conscious being do things no computer can do,
- Consciousness might be one way of doing somthing an ordinary computer could also do,
- or consciousness might not have any effect on the material self at all.

Here I'll deal with the first possibility, which is both good and bad for general optimizers and artificial intelligences.
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