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> Anything that can perceive itself and can perceive itself perceiving will exhibit all the hallmarks of what we call consciousness. It's a recognizable behavior pattern with a nam…

Thank you for your thought-provoking answer! You're arguing that consciousness is to be understood as a consciousness of the self (and its environment). That implies that there can…

First of all, thanks for mentioning those other examples to me, I haven't heard of them before and will definitely engage with them further. You're right that I can't just dismiss …

There's also a great recording of the address this quote is from (in German): http://math.sfsu.edu/smith/Documents/HilbertRadio/HilbertRad...

You should really take a look at the paper "Computation and Pattern Formation by Swarm Networks with Brownian Motion" or, more generally, any of the papers by Teijiro Isokawa and F…