Hmm can vitalism be refactored as an aesthetic? As a non-empiricist metaphysics it’s a non-starter in 2018. Like stream of consciousness, but for any process, not just literature. A post-biomorphic aesthetic of organic as opposed to mechanistic systems. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalism
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I guess part of problem is that consciousness is defined partly as a felt experience, which are not communicable between sapient entities, so knowing if an entity has same internal experience as you or one that's just Chinese Room'ing a simulacra of one seems impossible.
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Yeah, and I think vitalists and strict empiricists differ in how much benefit of doubt they give to the possibility of there being a non-trivial boundary to “living” conditions
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