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Perhaps individual ants are conscious to a degree. This kind of non binary contiousnes was explored in "I am a strange loop"
by sorokod 9y ago
Perhaps individual ants are conscious to a degree. This kind of non binary contiousnes was explored in "I am a strange loop"
- IshKebab 9y agoConsciousness is clearly a spectrum. Ask anyone who has ever got really drunk, or even woken up slowly. Trying to ask 'when does a baby become conscious' is like trying to say 'when does a baby become tall'. I still think consciousness is a real thing, and we definitely don't know what causes it, and maybe it is possible to find out. But I think the answer (if there is one) will come from AI - definitely not philosophers and probably not biologists.
- cygx 9y agoI think the answer (if there is one) will come from AI We might have to wait until brain simulation becomes a reality, which I expect to happen eventually (assuming we don't manage to pull the plug on civilization).
- cygx 9y agoThere are species of ants that can pass the mirror test.