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It is not as simple as that. We don't really know what consciousness is. We know its correlates but not how brains seem to cause consciousness. http://plato.st
by cscurmudgeon 13y ago
It is not as simple as that. We don't really know what consciousness is. We know its correlates but not how brains seem to cause consciousness.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/#5 http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/#5
At this stage of our knowledge saying "computation X will be conscious" is just a statement of belief or a simple definition as there is no consciouness-meter that I can use to test it. Such statements are unfalsifiable.
- scotty79 13y agoIt seems that conciousness is just eventual function of any adaptive system that's complex and poweful enough. Research mentiones that organisms as diverse as birds, mammals and mollusks advanced enough show some consciuosness. Mollusks are so different from us that they have evolved their own eyes from scratch, completely different from ours apart from functional elements.
- cscurmudgeon 13y agoIs a city containing a million humans conscious? If not, what is the criteria which rules out that city is not adaptive or complex and powerful enough?
- scotty79 13y agoHuman to human link is too narrow for the whole city to be conscious. Same way ant colony is not conscious. I have no idea what is the threshold but my guess is that conciousness requires more connectivity by at least few orders of magnitude higher that any city can provide. Also there is a factor of time. For being that lives and observes human brain for 1 ns it's not concious mind. It's just elaborate bit of architecture.