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Re:Are animals conscious? How new research is changing minds by paol on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @10:14AM (#40718114)
If you enjoy fiction I urge you to read Blindsight by Peter Watts. One of the central concepts in the plot is "what if consciousness were unnecessary for intelligence"? Along the way it explores all sorts of angles on consciousness and cognition.

Still ranks as one of the best SF works I've read this century.

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Re:Are animals conscious? How new research is changing minds by lordnacho on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @10:46AM (#40718448)
> what if consciousness were unnecessary for intelligence

Kind of interesting given we are currently in the midst of a revolution in artificial intelligence. From my playing with it, it seems something like ChatGPT is intelligent in the GP sense of "can abstract stuff and respond to new stimulus" but isn't conscious in the sense of having an interior.

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