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It seems rather tenuous to suggest that because all the parts of a conscious brain are active, all of the brain must then be conscious.
by doctorstupid 12y ago
It seems rather tenuous to suggest that because all the parts of a conscious brain are active, all of the brain must then be conscious.
- Luc 12y agoAfter reading it, I don't think anything like that is suggested by the article.
- anigbrowl 12y agoI think they're arguing that consciousness is an emergent property of a sufficiently large network, rather than being located in a particular cerebral structure.
- mewwts 12y agoThat's a great explanation.
- klank 12y agoI'm in agreement. Think of large social sites like reddit or 4chan. I think it would be fair to consider them as conscious entities for the same reason. They can have conversations with themselves about themselves and can even have conversations/interactions with outside entities all driven "by their own volition".
- anigbrowl 12y agoAh, so I'm not hte only person that thinks that way. I've found it helpful to imagine the same mechanism at work in any large system like market, a nation and so on. Even things like ant colonies have a sort of slow primitive consciousness. It's particularly interesting that you mention 4chan, since the the fact that it is anonymous by default actually fosters this behavior.
- charlieflowers 12y agoAlso, does awareness of the presence of a disc equate to consciousness? That seems rather tenuous.