The Uncanny Valley describes the eery feeling when I look at a shambling mound of individual cells that have lumped together into a humanoid form and execute a crude cellular automaton on dedicated chemo electrical cells that animate it and pretend to itself that it's conscious
Yes, I only refer to the mundane sense in which we are actually conscious, not to some mysterious quantum light phenomenon that connects our immortal soul with the mind-at-large of the cosmos :P
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And what is the "mundane sense in which we are actually conscious"? I don't know what that means. (I don't know the other sense either.) My own definition of "conscious" is a scale of mapmaking of external reality internally, in different dimensions. Literally.
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This is just the mind. You can make models of external (and also internal) world without being conscious of that. Consciousness is an integrated reflexive model of what the mind attended to. Attention is separate from modeling itself.
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