Re:Can lab-grown brains become conscious?
by falcor84 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:57PM
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The relevant reading material is "What is it like to be a bat"[0].
The way I understand it is that is asking you to imagine yourself as that type of being and try to identify whether it makes sense to you, such that if it does, then that object could be conscious. I (and many others) find it to be a really silly thought experiment, since it's testing your own power of imagination rather than anything interesting about the object.
The way I understand it is that is asking you to imagine yourself as that type of being and try to identify whether it makes sense to you, such that if it does, then that object could be conscious. I (and many others) find it to be a really silly thought experiment, since it's testing your own power of imagination rather than anything interesting about the object.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F