Robots and computer systems may have information stored, we typically do not think that the robot or computer system is aware of the information...
You are assuming that consciousness depends on life. That could just be an anthropic argument, you only know of one consciousness, your own, because...
Why? I think manifestation is very much entailed in awareness. I don't know what you mean by primitive, but does something *need* identification,...
So what are your take? We talk about consciousness not as in just "being awake", the brain could achieve all behaviors associated with being awake...
Indeed, neither am I saying that a rock is thinking anything, or feeling anything (if existence itself could not be described as a feeling of sorts)....
What is a cognitive system anyway? Does it need to be a brain? Sure, if we talk about complex reasoning or reasoning about things, but for the simple...
That the laws of physics allow for things to exist seems very reasonable and doesn't go against anything that I believe either. What strikes me is...
Well, the only term I would change is "truth" and I would change it to "fact", the truth is that nothing can be verified unless it is you verifying...
Was there a prior to yourself? How does time apply when you don't exist? If you don't exist how could you discern if anything outside "you" exist?...
But it doesn't live in a "dream world" where it has played basketball and had drinks with its playmates, it doesn't live at all, the only time the...
For anyones amusement I have had a chat with GPT-3 which, to me, shows that it isn't conscious. I don't have time to respond for a while, so I'll...
The link you gave doesn't say that it is GPT-3, or even that it is generated using AI, it just says that it is a digital copy of the birth...
I don't believe in argument from authority and he doesn't challenge the AI in any way while presenting it as if it was just another person, indulging...
The GPT-3 AI can't even draw text properly so how would it produce the birth certificate? Why do you think it is conscious if it can't even draw a...
What if all of spacetime started existing because somewhere at some time consciousness existed? What if consciousness is the property of existence?
Anything that requires long-term memory just can't be true, also anything where it says that it is pondering things in real-time isn't true, nothing...
Exactly. Indeed. Yes, this is exactly what the paradox states. But this is observations. There is a definite order to the events on Alpha Centauri....
Yeah, something like that.
Why would a "global now" be demolished just because our conscious experience of now extends (or is built) over a duration of time? In a way we...
What does this mean for someone on Andromeda, if time goes faster or slower in relation to someone on earth? I still would think that 'now' in...
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