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I don't know what it means to define consciousness without self awareness. Sounds like just emergent behaviors.
by metalliqaz 6y ago
I don't know what it means to define consciousness without self awareness. Sounds like just emergent behaviors.
- elindbe3 6y agoA lot of animals (such as insects) aren't self aware. I still think they have some form of consciousness. Emergent behaviors by themselves aren't goal-oriented.
- grassmudhorse 6y agoOr, from an insects perspective: "The swarm doesn't think humans are swarm-aware. Swarm still thinks they have some form of consciousness"
- grassmudhorse 6y agoI don't know what it means to define self-awareness without consciousness. Sounds like just emergent behaviors.
- MaxBarraclough 6y ago> I don't know what it means to define consciousness without self awareness Any entity capable of suffering presumably counts as being conscious. (I'm not claiming the converse here, though.) I don't see an obvious reason why every entity capable of suffering must necessarily be capable of self awareness. With the right blend of psychotropics, I suspect it would be possible to dissolve a person's sense of self while still causing them to suffer. They would still count as being conscious. Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24910009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24910009