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Re:How Did Consciousness Evolve? (2016) by tsimionescu on Monday September 28, 2020 @01:56PM (#24619416)
Im afraid that by this definition, a cell in my body is about as conscious as I am, and the LHC is far more conscious than I am.

Also, this definition does nothing to capture the difference between a philosophical zombie and a human, or help us tell if there is such a difference.

Re:How Did Consciousness Evolve? (2016) by lostmsu on Thursday October 01, 2020 @03:06AM (#24648170)
I don't think a cell in your body is as conscious as you are by that definition. You can probably abuse much more energy to get more difference. You have to sum over the entire volume.

As for LHC, it actually needs quite a lot of people to be "conscious". E.g. to be powered and able to operate, so it makes sense, that, as an organization, it is more conscious than you are.

On the philosophical zombie I don't believe there's any difference in consciousness to a human, and the definition matches that idea.

Now I'd challenge anyone to give a better definition in terms of the number of examples contradicting it.