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I'm not saying no animals have self-awareness, indeed many do. Not just octopuses, also elephants, corvids, dogs, chimps, etc. The animals we commonly eat (chi

I'm not saying no animals have self-awareness, indeed many do. Not just octopuses, also elephants, corvids, dogs, chimps, etc. The animals we commonly eat (chicken, cow, turkey, salmon, cod, etc) though don't seem to meet the criteria.

ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Right, I'm just saying we need a new framework (metaphysical, ethical, perhaps even socio-political if synthetic agents will be part of our society), beyond dichotomies such as natural/artificial, evolved/designed, organic/machine. Not sure how it should/would look like, best so far I could find is the concept of cognitive light cones [1] and the "Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds" [2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnObwxJZpZc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnObwxJZpZc [2] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2022.768201/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2022.7682...