RE: Quantum consciousness...
August 25, 2017 at 10:34 am
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2017 at 10:43 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Implicit in the question is that consciousness and non consciousness cannot provide the same or similar advantages, and also that they are not equally representative of some larger set to which they both belong, is why.
It could be like asking what advantages flying as a dragon fly provides over flying as a sparrow. We could come up with a pro and con list for both methods of flight, but underlying all of it, at some level, we couldn't avoid that flight -is- the advantage and was accomplished in both cases do to uniform underlying physics and the ability to exploit that is what confers the pros list to both reps.
Similarly, your NNs could be reps of subset a(experience of) whil we are reps of subset b (experience in) - but both are equally capable of doing many of the same things. That is their shared advantage. That's assuming that we aren't actually members of subset a who create narratives about being members of subset b, ofc..which isn't a safe assumption itself. We may be looking for a difference that confers an advantage where there is no difference, only the same advantage conferred by trivially disparate means due to identical underlying mechanisms. If the advantage is flight, no matter how you lift off, if you lift off, you have the advantage. If the advantage is a useful construct of self, no matter the modality of experience, -if- you experience, you have the advantage.
It could be like asking what advantages flying as a dragon fly provides over flying as a sparrow. We could come up with a pro and con list for both methods of flight, but underlying all of it, at some level, we couldn't avoid that flight -is- the advantage and was accomplished in both cases do to uniform underlying physics and the ability to exploit that is what confers the pros list to both reps.
Similarly, your NNs could be reps of subset a(experience of) whil we are reps of subset b (experience in) - but both are equally capable of doing many of the same things. That is their shared advantage. That's assuming that we aren't actually members of subset a who create narratives about being members of subset b, ofc..which isn't a safe assumption itself. We may be looking for a difference that confers an advantage where there is no difference, only the same advantage conferred by trivially disparate means due to identical underlying mechanisms. If the advantage is flight, no matter how you lift off, if you lift off, you have the advantage. If the advantage is a useful construct of self, no matter the modality of experience, -if- you experience, you have the advantage.
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