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There are people who think Google Maps is a tiny bit conscious (the union of computational functionalists and panpsychists), to resolve the dilemma of some magi
by energy123 6mo ago
There are people who think Google Maps is a tiny bit conscious (the union of computational functionalists and panpsychists), to resolve the dilemma of some magical binary threshold.
- thrownthatway 6mo agoWhen a honey bee does its little dance to communicate to its sisters where the foods at, similarly to Google Maps computing and communicating the shortest path to your destination, is the bee conscious? Yeah, probably. At least a little bit. Are 80,000 bees conscious, or more conscious? Well, they’re definitely capable of some emergent behaviours that one be alone can’t achieve.
- qnleigh 6mo agoRoot commenter here: I'm... almost one of those people. I suspect the fallacy is that we vastly underestimate the gulf in complexity between a human-written algorithm and a minimally-conscious creature like a bug. Probably the light switches on somewhere between these two things. We may also be overestimating the richness and complexity of an LLM relative to a human when we entertain these possibilities, but who knows.