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Re:Are animals more conscious than we are? by zwkrt on Friday July 09, 2021 @09:34PM (#27790355)
Just shitposting:

How about “the number of bits a subsection of a system is able to encode about the rest of the system surrounding it”

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Re:Are animals more conscious than we are? by oceanghost on Friday July 09, 2021 @10:00PM (#27790513)
I appreciate about HN that your, fairly amusing comment is "shitposting." :-)
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Re:Are animals more conscious than we are? by erikhoel on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:05PM (#27790804)
Ah, but what about the subsections of the subsections? And so, ad infinitum? Eventually you'll need something like the exclusion postulate of Integrated Information Theory
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