Hi Russell, On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 10:30 AM, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I follow your anthropic reasoning, but am not convinced by the implicit 1:1 correspondence between one minute of human consciousness and one human of insect consciousness. I have no rigorous way of saying this, but my intuition is the following: there is more content in one minute of one than the other. I think it makes sense for the probabilities to be weighted by this content, somehow. Imagine a simple possibility: your anthropic reasoning being weighed by the number of neurons in the given creature. See what I'm getting at? Cheers, Telmo. > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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. -- 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.
