Just heard two leading luminaries of studying consciousness casually revealing their respective convictions that bees are conscious, and that libraries are conscious, followed by a presentation about how we can reconcile our differences with more data. Data may not always help...
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To loosely paraphrase Einstein's quote about math precision vs useful physics description, I think it applies even more to precision in philosophy - the deeper the philosopher goes into precisely defining foundation terms & axioms, the less applicability it has to the real world.
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Especially if the main application is to extract status and funding from a non expert audience.
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IMHO too many define consciousness to be far more complex than it really is.
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Probably. But it may well require operational definitions of sentience, perception, reflexive attention etc., so it is not trivial to define either.
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