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Re:Electrons May Well Be Conscious by vl on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:12PM (#23225245)
But all organisms “get out of bed and get something to eat”, yet we don’t pretend that bacteria have consciousness. If you go down this road you’ll have to decide if apes, dogs, crocodiles, sharks and ants have consciousness and make arbitrary cut-off somewhere along this path.
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Re:Electrons May Well Be Conscious by visarga on Saturday May 23, 2020 @06:05AM (#23281676)
> yet we don’t pretend that bacteria have consciousness

In my view, life is a process that is governed on the grand scale by evolution (species adapting to the environment) and on individual scale by consciousness (individuals adaptating to environment).

Bacteria do both, like humans. Some AI agents also do both - evolution and learning, such as AlphaGo, just that its environment is a Go board.

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