Consciousness is a recurrent neural network

Re:Consciousness is a recurrent neural network by andybak on Thursday November 24, 2016 @11:13AM (#13031020)

I have a tongue-in-cheek theory:

Those who think there's not a "hard problem of consciousness" or hand-wave it away with purely materialist explanations probably aren't conscious.

Folks. We have p-zombies in our midst...

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Re:Consciousness is a recurrent neural network by yarrel on Thursday November 24, 2016 @11:36AM (#13031173)

But surely the idea of p-zombies is so inimical to the idea of a self that only p-zombies could believe in them?

(Sips tea.)

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Re:Consciousness is a recurrent neural network by mannykannot on Thursday November 24, 2016 @11:51AM (#13031252)

Any argument invoking p-zombies is probably best regarded as tongue-in-cheek.

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Re:Consciousness is a recurrent neural network by hasenj on Thursday November 24, 2016 @11:40AM (#13031197)

I've heard that iterated by a few other people as well. I find it somewhat amusing, but it's probably better explained as a different way of thinking.

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Re:Consciousness is a recurrent neural network by RivieraKid on Thursday November 24, 2016 @02:27PM (#13032235)

Yeah, I sometimes use this as an "argument", but don't actually believe this.

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Re:Consciousness is a recurrent neural network by hacker_9 on Thursday November 24, 2016 @12:12PM (#13031356)

This could make for a great TV drama.

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