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What if instead of consciousness being a yes/no, it's in terms of CU (consciousness units). Anything with >0 CUs is conscious. A bag of sand has 0 CUs, while a
by umvi 7y ago
What if instead of consciousness being a yes/no, it's in terms of CU (consciousness units). Anything with >0 CUs is conscious. A bag of sand has 0 CUs, while a human has 1 CU. A grasshopper might have 0.0001 CUs, though, which is > 0.
- Koshkin 7y agoWell sometimes the cables I have to untangle more often then I wanted seem conscious to me (in an evil kind of way); so, the question then becomes, how do we measure the CUs and, moreover, whether all CUs are created equal.
- umvi 7y ago> how do we measure the CUs Well, that's the real trick. We would first have to define consciousness before we can begin to measure it
- Der_Einzige 7y agoThere is a name for this phenomenon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistentialism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistentialism