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Computation is similarly hard to define as consciousness. That's the road to giving rocks some degree of consciousness. Which is fine, I suppose.
by adrianN 4y ago
Computation is similarly hard to define as consciousness. That's the road to giving rocks some degree of consciousness. Which is fine, I suppose.
- naasking 4y agoOn the road but nowhere near it. Rocks can't learn anything and then act differently based on what they've learned. Basically, they have no identity or internal state. It's like the difference between an immutable record and an object with identity. Identity is a necessary but insufficient property for consciousness, rocks don't have a meaningful sense of identity so they're not conscious.