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Try imagining yourself as a system of molecules all responding to their environment. It is reasonable that your complexity might be a good indicator of your po
by CuriouslyC 8y ago
Try imagining yourself as a system of molecules all responding to their environment. It is reasonable that your complexity might be a good indicator of your potential for intelligent responses. I don't think that holds for your consciousness though. If it did, that would imply either consciousness is a spectrum or the universe has a hard coded on/off switch for consciousness. The on/off hypothesis has problems with conservation of information, and if consciousness is defined as "having an internal experience" it isn't clear how that could be non-binary.
- nickpsecurity 8y agoDid you say an on-off switch for consciousness? There may be one for humans. https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/gw-researchers-disrupt-consciousness-electrical-stimulation https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/gw-researchers-disrupt-consciousness... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1525505014002017 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S152550501...
- CuriouslyC 8y agoThat area may be important for higher brain functioning and memory. I don't think those are equivalent to consciousness though.
- nickpsecurity 8y agoI think it's likely an emergent phenomenon. Still, being able to turn it on and off with specific components hints they're either the source of conciousness or a big part of it.