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Re:Scientists Are Rethinking Animal Cognition by fouc on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @11:51PM (#19159704)
>our best bet is that consciousness is maybe/probably an emergent property of information processing in the brain

I'd loosen up that and say 'neuron-like structures' instead of brain.

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Re:Scientists Are Rethinking Animal Cognition by TeMPOraL on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:00AM (#19160582)
I'd ignore the neurons and focus on the information processing aspect. There's nothing we know so far suggesting that it's not possible to replicate all the computations the brain is doing in a non-neural, or even "non-material" structure.

(Non-material in the sense where water flowing downhill vs. CPU computing gradient descent is material vs. non-material computation.)

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