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That’s pretty interesting. The more possible states a system has, the more room for consciousness. The ultimate organism is then either civilization itself, or
by FredPret 5y ago
That’s pretty interesting. The more possible states a system has, the more room for consciousness.
The ultimate organism is then either civilization itself, or the whole universe, depending on how you want to draw the line.
- FabHK 5y ago> The more possible states a system has, the more room for consciousness That is one of the postulates of Integrated Information Theory, which aims to give an account of how consciousness can arise from physical substrates. (The idea seems closely related to the concept of entropy.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory