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To add to delhanty's reply, a "degree of freedom" can be thought of as a dimension of the drawing that can be changed or "stretched" or moved without violating a constraint (this i…

It's a difficult idea to put into words, but I'll try to elaborate on what I mean. There are many things which respond to stimuli that most people wouldn't consider "conscious". Wh…

I've noticed that conversations about "consciousness" tend to go in circles because the participants are using different definitions of the word without realizing it. Some people u…

I wonder if it would be possible to mathematically define (in a theorem proving language like Coq) a bunch of accessor methods as well as a bunch of implementation primitives and t…