That's interesting; points towards "emergent from low level structure". I wonder if it's possible to quantify concousness and how much of it you loose it. It s

That's interesting; points towards "emergent from low level structure". I wonder if it's possible to quantify concousness and how much of it you loose it. It seems like it's not half/half split, ie. 1+1 != 2; can you split them again and how far you can do it. I also wonder what would happen if you left them to be for a while and then connect them back, would they merge or stay diverged. Maybe you could run it on ordinary neural net, it would be easier to quantify. Maybe some numbers would reveal something interesting, ie. maybe neural nets are exponentially better when connected and that's the whole trick. It won't answer questions about counciousness directly though.