Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation
Everything in the Universe, From Wandering Turtles to Falling Rocks, Is Surrounded by ‘Fields’ That Guide and Direct Movement
Daniel W McSheaaeon.co
It comes down to your metaphysical assumptions. If you are a computational functionalist, if you assume that computations, carried out on digital computers, are sufficient for consciousness, then sooner or later, computers will imitate all human functions, including consciousness. If not today, then soon. If, on the other hand, you assume that cons
... See moreChristof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
The first citation given concerns the “uniqueness problem,” which emphasizes a result long known by those of us who worked on IIT: that in systems that have mathematically perfectly symmetric interactions (the specifics are complicated, but just imagine this like a geometric shape), IIT gives conflicting answers as to the boundaries of the consciou... See more