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If you find this fascinating then [1] Panpsychis may be a fun hole for you to go down. Basically consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe. [1]
by TrispusAttucks 4y ago
If you find this fascinating then [1] Panpsychis may be a fun hole for you to go down.
Basically consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism
- edgyquant 4y agoI think that scientifically speaking this is a step too far. It makes sense for a cell to have developed awareness, it doesn’t make sense for a rock to be consciousness fundamentally speaking; or at least doesn’t seem falsifiable ever.
- resource0x 4y agoI know, panpsychism is a logical next step, but we are very far away from being able to study the consciousness of the atom. A bacterium could be a simpler target of practical research. There's a lot of "intelligence" in the living organisms, which potentially can be utilized and eventually lead to a real AGI.
- akomtu 4y agoToday, the science practices double-think: on the one hand it claims that the entire universe is one big wave function that evolves as one and can't be split into parts, but on the other hand it would call you a heretic if you use this wave function reasoning to claim a connection to a plant or, worse, to a rock.