RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness
August 25, 2015 at 11:39 am
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2015 at 11:41 am by The Grand Nudger.)
LOL, lost my post to a 502, oh well. It is interesting to wonder how a CNA might evolve, though it may not actually be all that difficult for one to arise. You can end up with a computer out of toilet paper rolls, so it doesn't take anything exotic for a machine to do logic. I suspect that it's not significantly more difficult to arrive at an organism capable of doing logic. In the case of Jellys, they have a ring cna (but also a much more extensive net architecture), fundamentally different than our own...so it must be simple enough that it happened not once, but at least twice. Or, taking the longer view, that both widely dissimilar structures are built atop a simpler shared unit.
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