Are animals more conscious than we are?
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Are animals more conscious than we are?
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Re: Are animals more conscious than we are?
#2I am not sure what this article is trying to accomplish.
Consciousness might be binary, so rabbits might have it?
Can you define consciousness at all?
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#3How do you wire up the “conscious-o-meter”? What would a function for mapping consciousness to a quantity look like? How about
[thoughts, emotions, sensations]
.sum { |p| p.frequency * p.complexity }
Re: Are animals more conscious than we are?
#4How do you wire up the “conscious-o-meter”? What would a function for mapping consciousness to a quantity look like? How about [thoughts, emotions, sensations] .sum { |p| p.frequency * p.complexity } Collecting the data is left as an exercise for the student.
Integrated information theory has one attempt at actually measuring how conscious a system is. It calls it phi.
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#5I am not sure what this article is trying to accomplish. Consciousness might be binary, so rabbits might have it? Can you define consciousness at all?
Just shitposting:
How about “the number of bits a subsection of a system is able to encode about the rest of the system surrounding it”
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#6No
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#7all that chicken must have a death wish then
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#8Humans are the dumbest animals.
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#9the notion of "The Fall is self-awareness" is ... pretty old.
Re: Are animals more conscious than we are?
#10I am not sure what this article is trying to accomplish. Consciousness might be binary, so rabbits might have it? Can you define consciousness at all?
Isn't consciousness the feeling of existing?