Roger,
Monads are everywhere, inside computers
as well as humans, rocks and free space.
Whatever allows monads to connect to physical objects
may be operative for inanimates as well as animates.
So the first step is to identify the connecting mechanism.
For physical consciousness I conjecture the
Hi Richard Ruquist
I may have given that impression, sorry, but
a monad can only make what's "inside" do what it can do.
Human and animal monads can both feel, so they can be conscious.
But a rock is at best unconscious as it cannot feel or think.\
There's no way to tell what faculties a comp
Hi Bruno Marchal
True, I may not be able to prove that the computer is not conscious.
For I certainly cannot be sure if another person is conscious.
For the computer, I can say however, that it would need
a self to be consciousness, a singular unitary entity into
which the many can be experien
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