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What's the big deal about consciousness anyway?? I don't see the 'magic' about being self-aware. Surely it just a step up the cognitive ladder from existing
by colinm 13y ago
What's the big deal about consciousness anyway??
I don't see the 'magic' about being self-aware.
Surely it just a step up the cognitive ladder from existing without awareness.
- omarchowdhury 13y ago“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.” Oscar Wilde
- guard-of-terra 13y agoWhat is "cognitive ladder"? Where does it come from? How many steps does it have? Are we the last one?
- colinm 13y agoProbably an evolved gradation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test#Reactions_of_other_animals_to_mirrors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test#Reactions_of_other_...
- guard-of-terra 13y agoI can imagine a race of aliens rejecting human consciousness on the basis of them not passing Smell Mirror Test. Let's suppose dogs will qualify which will humiliatingly put humans pretty low on the ladder.