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This is nonsense. The statement isn't meaningless. It's a tweet, not a formal conjecture. Sure, no one knows what exactly consciousness is... or what slightly

This is nonsense. The statement isn't meaningless. It's a tweet, not a formal conjecture. Sure, no one knows what exactly consciousness is... or what slightly conscious is. The idea of protoconsiousness isn't that much of a stretch. If a biologist had suggested some plants have protoconsiousness, no one would have whined. So what if someone working on NLP has an opinion about consciousness. Why is their opinion less valid than someone else's. It's not less informed.

Retric 5y ago
I didn’t say meaningless, I said he didn’t communicate clearly. He can always add more tweets on the subject to remove ambiguity. Suppose you walked past a billboard that just said “Jump.” That’s grammatically correct and would be meaningful with context, but sitting alone you simply have no idea what idea was supposed to be communicated. Perhaps you missed a different sign, perhaps it’s art or an in joke, but sitting alone it’s simply ambiguous.