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Re:Our Conscious Experience of the World Is but a Memory, Sa... by akomtu on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @12:44AM (#33339921)
And software is an emergent property of transistors? Math must be an emergent property of paper, then.
Re:Our Conscious Experience of the World Is but a Memory, Sa... by qwertywert_ on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @12:48AM (#33339943)
Emergent property through evolutionary selection, do you not believe in evolution?

If the brain is just processing things in complete chaos an animal would be completely useless, but with a part/thread dedicated to processing inputs and checking memory I think it is very obvious this function of consciousness would emerge through natural evolution.

Re:Our Conscious Experience of the World Is but a Memory, Sa... by CloudRecondite on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @02:46AM (#33340550)
You should read about philosophical zombies if you haven’t heard the concept
Re:Our Conscious Experience of the World Is but a Memory, Sa... by qwertywert_ on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @10:49PM (#33352476)
Yes, to me they sound like similar questions as can a human-level AGI robot experience consciousness like we do, or is consciousness a purely physical thing. My opinion is yes to both but I guess i'm a physicalist/materialist.

Actually another comment points out something interesting, when we get black-out drunk we are basically in this zombie-state. We can talk and hit our head and physically our brain still reacts, but it was like we aren't actually there and our body is just on autopilot mode.