On naturalism and consciousness

[FallentoReason]

Ah, Rhythm my main man! Good to see you around this place again.

Well, what about the program tells you it's inherently a belief about curved spoons?

It isn't, inherently. It is a variable that can be defined, and then handled.

All I hypothetically see are pixels being lit up by electricity that just so happen to spell out possibly what would be a mathematical expression of a curved spoon,

Which is all -I- see with regards to our "beliefs" - "all" implies some sort of negative connotation - and I don;t want it to come across that way because I think it;s awesome that this is even possible, regrdless of whatever is doing "it"

of which would be completely meaningless

Hardly, p=spoons are curved is nothing -if not- a statement of what p means. It is entirely comprised of meaning..you might even call it...meangful :wink:

and void of any belief if it weren't for my hypothetical technical skills required to interpret said output i.e. an already conscious being is required in order to connect one set of particles to another in a fashion we would call "belief".

Hardly, unless you think that a string computer is conscious.