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Re:Is the Sun Conscious? [pdf] by theptip on Friday March 29, 2024 @10:50AM (#39864759)
I think you can envision “non-human-like”. Eg we already imagine animals can be conscious.

Conscious just means an intelligence that is self-aware and has subjective experience. If you define that as human-like then your point stands tautologically. But I think there is a very wide space of conscious possible-minds.

Simple examples would be hive-minds, faster minds, slower minds, distributed minds, quantum minds, it’s really quite easy to imagine conscious non-human minds.

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Re:Is the Sun Conscious? [pdf] by strogonoff on Friday March 29, 2024 @10:59AM (#39864859)
An animal’s consciousness is not exactly human-like, but close enough. Envision something on completely foreign time & space scales and it might be indistinguishable from, say, a weather system.
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