On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 05:14:21PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > Now, is a jellyfish conscious? > > I bet they are, but not far away from the dissociative and constant > arithmetical consciousness (of the universal machines).
As I'm sure you're aware, I disagree with this. Jellyfish appear to be quite simple automatons, with a distributed neural network, not any brain as such. However, my main reason for disagreeing is that anthropic reasoning leads us to conclude that most species of animal are not conscious. Our most typical animal is a nematode (for instance your favourite - the planarians), but even most insects cannot be conscious either. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow [email protected] Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
