unless function and/or computation are inflated to cover *anything* a connected system does (typical move for computation, less for function - i think)

but if you carefully divorce the concept of 'pain' from its normal functional role (the 'painfulness of pain'), no i don't think IIT can be taken to require any particular functional organization for 'feeling pain'

i don't know this stuff well at all, but it seems that basing the definition around something like "pain" - which has very strong functional connotations - is different from basing it around "consciousness"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjGH...

I think Jesse Welles is the protest folk singer of our time.. "Join Ice", "War isn't Murder", "No Kings", he's been cranking them out for a year or two now..

www.instagram.com/reel/DND34FS...

i do not.. but our new TICS paper circles around the same idea:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

of course, if there's interest. let me know!

i'd be interested to hear reactions/feedback!

this is really neat, but couldn't one argue that *all the low-level properties have changed*. every contrast has been rotated and translated - content at every position has been replaced with different content.

to see what's "the same" one has to rotate the full image, which is pretty "high level"

but then i wonder. i'm trying it out right now - if i think "this friday" it definitely feels i'm thinking of "the coming friday", but if i think "this monday", i'm thinking of yesterday. is the dividing line at the weekend? so "this" is about "this week", and the days are subdivisions of that?

so you have "this" friday, which is the one that hasn't happened yet (that's "this past" or "last" friday), unless you're speaking in past tense, then "this" friday is "last" friday. then (in past tense), "next" friday would be "this" (coming) friday, since as always "next" is after "this".

i have to fixate the yellow and focus really hard on it, and once i get it foregrounded it's hard to hold on to it (it is relatively easier upside down, yeah)

reading the text is extremely disheartening because it's so familiar

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

reminds me of the rodney dangerfield joke, how he finally married a good woman who loves him for his money and fame, not for who he is on the inside.

oh i have certainly asked AIs to explain code to me that was entirely written *by me*