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nifty, 3 months ago

Tumblr shitposting

nifty, 3 months ago

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nifty, 3 months ago

I love that as a bad name

nifty, 3 months ago

There are some keyboards where you can replace control buttons depending on your OS, e.g. a windows key instead of an Mac OS key etc

nifty, 3 months ago

Step 3

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nifty, 3 months ago

Or some way to appear non threatening or well meaning. I usually just :)

nifty, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Coco the gorilla might have been but turned out to be far removed (largely because she faked knowing sign language and her handlers didn’t know sign well enough to see she was faking it.)

Language comprehension is often mistaken for sentience, but everything communicates on some level. Developing a means for communication doesn’t necessarily imply sentience. By default, Mammals are conscious because of the way they propagate themselves through different means in complex environments. OTOH, bacteria are not conscious because their propagation is mostly driven by chemical responses. For example, indv. bacteria are not engaging in game theoretic interactions with other bacteria over resources for self-propagation.

Heck, we can’t be certain the person who wakes up every morning is the same as the person who went to sleep.

Yes, we can on many levels. I am not sure who says these things, any links?

nifty, 3 months ago

Ah rationalism, my mind blocks out unpleasant things all the time. There’s no proof the Universe wasn’t farted out by God. In this case, I guess I’d treat it as any other fantastical statement: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I think people who liken consciousness to a collection of properties make the same mistake as people attributing language comprehension as a property of consciousness. You cannot put discrete elements together and call something a ship any more than you can put discrete elements together and call it conscious. A translation app can see and translate images from one language to another, but the app is not conscious.

Regarding the changes a conscious being experiences over time: you can change on a chemical level (as one does over time), you can change on a genetic level (this also happens for any living thing over time), and you can change over an organism level, but you remain the same person (even after you get up from sleeping) because you maintain some internally directed sense of self. Internal self-direction is a key property of consciousness.

nifty, 3 months ago

There are people who unironically believe this.

nifty, 3 months ago

It’s a tree cat, everyone always makes that mistake smh