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> ... some kinds material have consciousness and other kinds of material don’t... Why are you only judging by kind of material - in other words the composition

> ... some kinds material have consciousness and other kinds of material don’t... Why are you only judging by kind of material - in other words the composition of the agent? Maybe what is missing is context, all that is around the agent. What consciousness needs is a feedback loop, a demanding environment, an internal goal, ability to learn and self replicate. The first three depend on the outside and only the last two on the inside. Others have discusses about consciousness needing the 5E's: Embodied, Embedded, Extended and Enacted in the Environment.

brudgers 4y ago
Maybe what is missing is context, all that is around the agent. I swallow a pebble. All the context that surrounds me, surrounds the pebble. Thus the pebble is conscious whenever I am. Sure you could object that being inside me is an entirely different context. And maybe you will argue the pebble’s context was different than mine in a way that precluded consciousness as I stood before it, as I grasped it with my fingers, and held it on my tongue. All this careful arrangement of the universe fills the logical necessity of a god in Cartesian style dualisms.