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The problem here is that there is no agreed upon definition of consciousness that is mathematical/scientific. Whereas Turing gave us a definition of computation
by dntbnmpls 6y ago
The problem here is that there is no agreed upon definition of consciousness that is mathematical/scientific. Whereas Turing gave us a definition of computation that we can all agree upon, there isn't one for consciousness.
"The theory fundamentally says that any physical system that has causal power onto itself is conscious. What do I mean by causal power? The firing of neurons in the brain that causes other neurons to fire a bit later is one example, but you can also think of a network of transistors on a computer chip: its momentary state is influenced by its immediate past state and it will, in turn, influence its future state"
So a line of falling dominos is conscious? What about billiard balls or marbles? A fibonacci numbers conscious?
Also, how does this definition align with the definition of consciousness in neuroscience, psychology, biology, etc?
It's good that people are working on "consciousness" from a variety of fields, but wish we had an actual definition of consciousness so that we would know what we are searching for. Maybe we'll have to discover it first to define it.