How to Make a Consciousness Meter (2017)

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Post by the-great-assyr » Sun, Jan 21, 2018, 11:51 AM UTC

Re: How to Make a Consciousness Meter (2017)

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jan 21, 2018, 4:54 PM UTC

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Post by sova » Sun, Jan 21, 2018, 4:55 PM UTC

What about living things that don't have a brain you can "zap to verify" ?

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Post by dvfjsdhgfv » Sun, Jan 21, 2018, 5:46 PM UTC

I'd love to read this article but the page asks me to pay $7 for it.

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Post by sova » Sun, Jan 21, 2018, 5:52 PM UTC

dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #4

I'd love to read this article but the page asks me to pay $7 for it.

Ha! That's actually the consciousness test.

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Post by zeroxfe » Sun, Jan 21, 2018, 6:00 PM UTC

Makes me wonder what initial configurations of Game of Life can cause consciousness to emerge.

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Post by pella » Sun, Jan 21, 2018, 6:16 PM UTC

dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #4

I'd love to read this article but the page asks me to pay $7 for it.

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Post by cscurmudgeon » Sun, Jan 21, 2018, 7:25 PM UTC

One of the big problems with IIT's measure of consciousness is that it ascribes a bit consciousness to almost everything.

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Post by kleer001 » Sun, Jan 21, 2018, 7:51 PM UTC

zeroxfe wrote: post #6

Makes me wonder what initial configurations of Game of Life can cause consciousness to emerge.

It's a Turing Complete wonderland, so there should be many.