Since eyebrows are being raised over your considering lions unconscious, how about the following amendment?

> An earthquake is dangerous even though it's not conscious.

I was responding to the parent who talked about real ai not sure why eyebrows are being raised unless someone want to misunderstand the context the comment were made in.

Of course a lion is conscious but it's not conscious at a level that the parent means (real ai).

> A lion is still dangerous even tough it's not conscious.

Of course, because it can wake up, right? Or are you trying to say Lions are not intelligent? If the latter I think you are wrong. I am fairly certain lions can acquire new skills and apply that knowledge in many ways. Like knowing that whoever put them down is a threat and they should probably attack them when they wake up.

I am responding to the parent who talk about "real ai" what I am saying is that you don't need "real ai" for something to be a threat. with real ai I am assuming the parent means conscious self aware AI.

No lions most certainly can't acquire new skills in any meaningful way besides trough evolution.

>No lions most certainly can't acquire new skills in any meaningful way besides trough evolution.

C. Elegans can learn new behaviors. I'm inclined to think that animals with 0 capacity for learning don't exist.

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Sure but in this context that's hardly relevant. We are comparing it with "real ai" as the parent calls it or GAI which is something on a much much different level.

Lions aren't that dangerous when they're unconscious. It's when they wake up that they get dangerous.

Snakes can be dangerous, ants and spiders can be. They don't need to be "woken up". Instead it's a consequence of what they are optimized for that makes them dangerous.

Lions are almost definitely conscious, since they share the overwhelming majority of their nervous-system function and structure with us.

A lion is not conscious?