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Intelligence, Consciousness and Soul, oh my; Sy Montgomery's "The Soul of an Octopus"

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Intelligence, Consciousness and Soul, oh my; Sy Montgomery's "The Soul of an Octopus"
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RE: Intelligence, Consciousness and Soul, oh my; Sy Montgomery's "The Soul of an Octopus"
January 30, 2016 at 10:24 am
The notion that consciousness is 'generated', bottom-up only, from neural substrates is an unchallenged assumption. It seems like free lunch magic to me. But more to the point, I have no clue what it is like to be anything other that human. That said we could infer from its behaviour, even that of the severed tentacle, the forms it must embody and the ends for which it acts in order to 'be' an octopus. I would imagine that like behavior requires like concept formation.
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RE: Intelligence, Consciousness and Soul, oh my; Sy Montgomery's "The Soul of an Octopus" - by Neo-Scholastic - January 30, 2016 at 10:24 am

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