Not 'conscious' but I don't think it is a binary between being consciousness and blank oblivion, possible states of awareness may be a much broader category. They will eventually hit limiting factors but that doesn't rule out a period of exponential growth that tails off
I think the question would require empirical methods that are currently unfeasible to really determine an answer
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I considered that, and disproved it. It's not an empirical question. If a physical system is predictable from physical law - if it is not literally magic - it is not conscious.
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So do you believe the human brain is magic?
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The specialized machine tunes into non-physics. It is a nonphysics transceiver. The brain is not a purely physical system.
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The empirical question is what exactly the machine looks like, how it functions, and how you can tell it's not just a regular chunk of physics.
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'Non-physics transceiver' sounds like you're back at cartesian dualism. How do you tell it's not just regular physics?
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Because consciousness exists and can't be physical. I am a Cartesian dualist.
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Apologies I assumed they were extinct, I think my disagreement is pretty much axiomatic in that case
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It's not axiomatic, I checked. Consciousness has the wrong kinds of properties to be physical. Physics is epistemically objective. Consciousness is epistemically subjective.
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