(May 7, 2018 at 12:12 am)MysticKnight Wrote: One thread I don't know if you guys remember was the binary nature of consciousness. Some thing is either consciousness or not. To go from non-consciousness to consciousness at whatever degree of any degree of consciousness, cannot happen by a mere mutation or a few. It has to be a lot and so many that it cannot be due to random type in naturalism way.
It's quite easy to go from non-conscious to conscious.
Although you could say that consciousness is binary in that you can say that something is or is not conscious, some people can be more conscious than others. Calling it binary is disingenuous, because really, it isn't.
After all, some people are more conscious of why they are performing an action than others.
What then does consciousness mean at its most basic? It means sensing your own internal state and adapting to it. For example, while driving yesterday I noticed that I was starting to make silly mistakes and was probably fatigued and too warm so I let my husband take over.
So with a simple neural network, it would be quite simple to have the behaviour of the network read by another neural network and fed back in as an input for example. A simple mutation could achieve this.
