aCosmicWave
@acosmicwave.bsky.social
🕹️explorer of imaginary worlds
🧐 lover of big questions
💾 fluent in the language of the machine
🧐 lover of big questions
💾 fluent in the language of the machine
Ahhh! Sounds like a mustardy hellscape. Why would anyone entertain such ludicrous hypotheticals?
February 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Ahhh! Sounds like a mustardy hellscape. Why would anyone entertain such ludicrous hypotheticals?
Where, exactly, do you draw the line on experience?
For me, it makes more sense to think of consciousness as something that scales with the complexity of its host system, rather than something that magically appears out of nowhere.
For me, it makes more sense to think of consciousness as something that scales with the complexity of its host system, rather than something that magically appears out of nowhere.
January 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Where, exactly, do you draw the line on experience?
For me, it makes more sense to think of consciousness as something that scales with the complexity of its host system, rather than something that magically appears out of nowhere.
For me, it makes more sense to think of consciousness as something that scales with the complexity of its host system, rather than something that magically appears out of nowhere.
Imagine a professional human saying: ‘I believe all activity in the universe is completely void of experience. Other animals? No way. Insects? Squish em. Plants? Sure, they’ve been proven to have the capacity to use principles of quantum mechanics to photosynthesize efficiently, but that’s it.’
January 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Imagine a professional human saying: ‘I believe all activity in the universe is completely void of experience. Other animals? No way. Insects? Squish em. Plants? Sure, they’ve been proven to have the capacity to use principles of quantum mechanics to photosynthesize efficiently, but that’s it.’
Love the analogy. What I’m suggesting is that all the things you mentioned might have an elementary form of ‘experience.’ Sure, it sounds far-fetched for a rock, but without its minerals and subatomic particles ‘doing their thing,’ it wouldn’t have shape or even exist.
January 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Love the analogy. What I’m suggesting is that all the things you mentioned might have an elementary form of ‘experience.’ Sure, it sounds far-fetched for a rock, but without its minerals and subatomic particles ‘doing their thing,’ it wouldn’t have shape or even exist.
tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you get
January 20, 2025 at 4:56 AM
tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you get