I wonder if "From Computation to Consciousness" will be amazing or send me into ontological rage #31c3 :)
@puellavulnerata sounds like there's some hope it isn't part of the cottage industry of explaining why consciousness is a special snowflake
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@chaosprime MAGIC MEAT! MAGIC MEAT!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@chaosprime (but seriously,I get more and more sympathetic to panpsychism...)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@chaosprime ...or at least to attributing consciousness to information-processing agents coupled to an environmentThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@chaosprime I.e, a thermostat is conscious to a tiny degree, a brain to a huge one -
@puellavulnerata this is at minimum vastly preferable to the magic meat hypothesis
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