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Before we can start to really answer those questions, we first have to nail down what being conscious means. If we had a good understanding of what being consci
by danbruc 3y ago
Before we can start to really answer those questions, we first have to nail down what being conscious means. If we had a good understanding of what being conscious means, it might become relatively easy to look at something and assess if it meets the criteria or not.
- nathan_compton 3y agoWe don't need to really nail it down. See my above comment. We have a good working understanding of what consciousness is in terms of practical behavior and in terms of the associated neural activity. That is definitely a reasonable basis for further study.
- CuriouslyC 3y agoWow, just whoosh. We have data on the behavior of nervous systems, and we have correlates with states of consciousness, not even close to what the GP was talking about.
- scarmig 3y agoHow would you evaluate whether other entities with sophisticated information processing behaviors are conscious or not? Just outright rejecting anything that does information processing on a substrate very dissimilar to ours?
- michaelmrose 3y agoWhat substrate is the universe using and what is it modeling
- scarmig 3y agoI'm not defending panpsychism; I'm pointing out that a hand-wavey argument that "consciousness is just something that arises from nervous systems that are ours or very similar systems" doesn't explain or justify itself.