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If consciousness is a complicated form of minerals, might we equally say that minerals are a primitive form of consciousness?
by bithive123 4y ago
If consciousness is a complicated form of minerals, might we equally say that minerals are a primitive form of consciousness?
- ben_w 4y agoThat would be animism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism
- sfink 4y agoI dunno, LLMs feel a lot like a primitive form of consciousness to me. Eliza feels like a primitive form of LLMs' consciousness. A simple program that prints "Hey! How ya doin'?" feels like a primitive form of Eliza. A pile of interconnected NAN gates, fed with electricity, feels like a primitive form of a program. A single transistor feels like a primitive form of a NAN gate. A pile of dirty sand feels like a primitive form of a transistor. So... yeah, pretty much?
- imtringued 4y agoNaN gates were a mistake. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5TFDG-y-EHs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5TFDG-y-EHs