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Re:Consciousness Goes Deeper Than We Think by pixl97 on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @09:14AM (#15293346)
My belief is that consciousness is the ability of an organism to model the world and predict the future. Any organism that doesn't just react is on the consciousness spectrum. When a creature is presented with two or more choices and has to decide which will have the best outcome, it is making a conscious choice.

The problem with starting at human consciousness is our consciousness is to advanced to easily grasp. We can not only internally model our real world very well and make predictions years in advance, we can make up completely coherent 'fake' worlds. The problem with animal consciousness is we have no means of a coherent model of what is occurring in their minds.

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Re:Consciousness Goes Deeper Than We Think by visarga on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @10:32AM (#15294139)
We also have AI agents. By creating robots we gain a lot of insight into the difficulties solved by the brain. With AI agents we can experiment much more freely than with animals or humans, we can peek into their workings and try variations.
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