Imagine if you can, a jockstrap suddenly becoming conscious.

Then imagine said jockstrap hosting a YouTube channel.

Hold that thought in your mind.

Now, think of Steven Crowder.

Ok, that all.

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Contra reductionism:

If qualia are epiphenomenal (casually redundant) yet strongly emergent features, in the form of the qualitative features of conscious experience. e.g., the way that the salty sweetness of a pussy tastes to a particular subject on a given occasion, then some form of epistemological pluralism is in order.

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Takeaway: What if AI has sensory phenomenology but lacks cognitive phenomenology?

Would they not be partial zombies?

And would partial zombies be entitled to all the same rights, protections, and privileges that human beings possess?

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4/4

Perusing some of the literature on the study of the neurobiological events/processes/mechanisms that underlie consciousness, there are five words you will see repeated over and over, all of course taking place in the incredibly complex and sophisticated exchange of CODED INFORMATION between different parts of the brain nodes/regions/neuronal processor networks:

-Recurrent
-Loops
-Amplify
-Reverberatory
-Feedback

Let that sink in.

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What is the brain's G-spot, and how do you find it?

What higher level neural properties are necessary and/or sufficient for generic consciousness of a given state?

Perusing some of the most prominent theories our there, I surmise It will have to involve recurrent information processing performed by a critical area/neural networks of the brain.

The question is: What area/network in humans is the sweet spot?

Or should i call it: The G-spot?

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If i say, "Mind supervenes on matter, but is not reducible to it" what position does that categorically make it?

Or, what if I take the position that the mental and physical domains of reality are aspects/manifestations of an underlying undivided/monist reality in which the mental and the physical do not exist as separate domains?

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#Zdzisław Beksiński

RE: Michael Tye

If the unrestricted version of strong representationalism has got it right, & the phenomenal character of states are reducible to its intentional contents, i.e., they are transparent and there is nothing additional, mysterious to them (and therefore, solving the hard problem of consciousness), i would say then the likelihood of AI programs becoming sentient in the next say, 20 years, would have to be at least 40 percent.

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Can #Science crack the #Mystery of #Consciousness ? - #BernardoKastrup, #CarloRovelli, and #PatriciaChurchland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIqvncSi1iE&ab_channel=TheInstituteofArtandIdeas

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A quick take on minds and how they are not accessible by neuroscience: https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/classifying-minds.html

For my philosophy degree, my senior seminar was Consciousness and Personal Identity and I feel like (almost 20 years on), I am no closer to _defining_ minds than I was then, but this is a great reminder to keep on investigating.

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