Re:Scientists Are Rethinking Animal Cognition
by mannykannot on Thursday February 14, 2019 @08:29AM
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Indeed - you only have to watch infants grow up to see them moving through the continuum, and something analogous probably happened in the evolution of our various hominin ancestors.
In the former case, and probably the latter, there is a definite acceleration when they begin to appreciate the power of language.
It crossed my mind recently in respect to AI consciousness, that all animals appear to be conscious at least to an extent - there aren't any that appear to be zombies I can think of, maybe they all got killed off. It made me wonder if consciousness as we know it, rather than requiring some step change for AI, is simply an inevitable outcome of sufficient processing, information storage, evolution and maybe some other factors. And therefore very much a continuum.
IDK.