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consciousness seems to require short term memory, an internal representation of the world where 'experience' is an update to that internal representation. This
by mjfl 2y ago
consciousness seems to require short term memory, an internal representation of the world where 'experience' is an update to that internal representation. This would seem to require a brain, or transistors!
- RobertRies 2y agoI very much agree with this. It seems to me panpsychists make a redefinition of consciousness as some entirely alien, unrecognizable thing. So, if an atom is conscious, but has no sensory systems, no possibly way to store memory etc. Well the atoms are still "experiencing" something, it's just instantaneously vanishing and there's no continuity and you can't even fathom what the experience of an atom is like per epoch because it's so different from our consciousness. I think this is a redefinition of consciousness and shifts the problem of explaining when an entity has an experience like we all think about experiences, which was the interesting part in the first place.